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Re: Include language bindings? Re: Draft Standard Text, V02.1

That's a good question.

Looking at IEEE 754-1985, one sees that it was a decade or more
after the hardware standard was in use before there were language
bindings.  Can including language bindings help the process?

Baker

On 3/15/2010 9:49 AM, Rudnei Cunha wrote:

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
<mailto: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
     >
     > 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.
     >
     > 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.
     >
     > The Latex of this version is Revision 22 on the P1788 subversion
    server.
     >
     > Best wishes
     >
     > John Pryce
     > <P1788_MAIN.pdf>

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