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Re: Expression evaluation [was Re: I vote NO ...]



Nick

On 18 May 2011, at 11:38, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> I am sorry, but that's not going to work.  The reasons were raised
> (mainly by outsiders) in the discussion of IEEE 754, but were swept
> under the carpet.

What are you telling us?
 - That Motion 24 is useless?
 - That anything we put in an interval standard to influence language standards is useless?

Or are you reminding us that, whatever good ideas we put in an interval standard, there is no alternative to the hard graft of joining a language standards group and working to influence it from the inside?

John