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Re: Containment is necessary but not sufficient...

On Aug 26 2011, Nate Hayes wrote:


On the other hand, my impression is people expect there will be some
explicit inf-sup data type defined at level 3 and level 4 to be a pair of
IEEE 754 values, as this will likely be used in a large number of
implementations and applications.

So I *think* all Jurgen and Marco were suggesting is that -- in addition to
specifying the explicit and implicit ADTs -- P1788 might also wish to
consider specifying an explicit inf-sup data type at levels 3 and 4.
However, to the extent I understand correctly, this would build on top of
the generic ADT bindings and not replace them.


Ah.  If that is the case, I completely misunderstood.

That's clearly a sane way to go.  I doubt very much that there will be
any great interest in anything other than a generic specification and
that single concrete example, at least in the near future.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.