Re: Reasons (not) to vote Motion 27: NO
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On 4 Aug 2011, at 13:09, Nate Hayes wrote:
> Arnold Neumaier wrote:
>> Motion 26 protects the inexperienced user, while the expert user can judge
>> for themselves how to make use of the decorations.
>
> All Motion 26 does in this regard is allow users to write unreliable
> programs. Since there is no standard, a user may run a program on one
> conforming implementation that uses a certain set of semantics and get valid
> results (by coincidence) and then run the same program on another conforming
> implementation and fail catastrophically.
What I wrote is intended to preclude that:
On 2 Aug 2011, at 06:50, John Pryce wrote:
> Please write, and put in your library, a decorated version of intersection that fits your applications. Offer its API for general use. Let others do the same. Just ensure THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES.
John Pryce