Re: Draft Standard Text, V02.1

[Rudnei Cunha <rudnei.cunha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues,

I understand P1788 is a hardware standard and as such George's remarks are correct. 

However, shouldn't we also be concerned with how these operations will map onto high-level language constructs? 

I mean, should we have at the end of the work on the standard a proposal for language bindings? Or should we leave it as a work to be carried out immediately after the approval of the standard?

Regards,

Rudnei

2010/3/15 Corliss, George <george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Friends,

Thanks, John.

Reading this made me think of an issue perhaps worth some discussion: I/O.

I might consider offering a motion: Since P1788 is a hardware standard, questions of input and output are not within the scope of the standard.

Comments?

Interval I/O is a fruitful topic for discussion.  However, it seem to me that interval I/O is entirely a language issue, not a hardware issue.

In John's draft standard (section 5.4.1), he specifies an interval constructor floats2interval().  That makes sense.  He also lists a constructor text2interval().  If we are specifying an interval language/environment, I agree.  If we are specifying interval hardware, I think it is out of scope.

Similarly, I note almost no mention of interval output in these discussions.  I think that is exactly right.

Frequently, I have argued here for SIMPLICITY.  Let's leave interval I/O out of this hardware standard.

George

On Mar 14, 2010, at 10:25 AM, John Pryce wrote:

> P1788
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> At last I have revised the draft Standard Text in the light of comments received. I urge EVERYONE to read this Version 02, sub-version 1, and give me comments, even if these are only that you (a) like it or (b) hate it.
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> I think we are at a stage where parts, at least, of this document can be voted on to become official text. I shall discuss with the Officers in the next days on the best procedure to put this in hand.
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> The Latex of this version is Revision 22 on the P1788 subversion server.
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> Best wishes
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> John Pryce

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