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Frédéric Goualard wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I vote NO on Motion 8.02 on the following grounds: Decorations as proposed by Motion 8.02 have the potential to greatly enhance the usefulness of interval arithmetic libraries. I have no doubt about that. On the other hand, I believe that the standardization process shouldsanction techniques and practices that stood the test of time.
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More broadly, I am in favor of standardizing only what is already known to work and to be useful. Let us add powerful additions like decorations in the next version of the standard, once the first simple one is widely accepted and implemented.
Note the the IEEE754 standard also introduced directed rounding and NaN's, for which there was no previous experience.