Re: M0008.02_Exception_Handling NO
> Frédéric Goualard wrote:
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>> I vote NO on Motion 8.02 on the following grounds:
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>> 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.
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>> On the other hand, I believe that the standardization process should
>> sanction 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.
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> Note the the IEEE754 standard also introduced directed rounding and
> NaN's, for which there was no previous experience.
Or did it? My understanding was that Intel already had a conforming chip
(i8087?) before the standard was even voted thanks to Kahan's early work.