Re: Motion P1788/M0029.01: Level-3-interface-only --- discussion period begins

["Nate Hayes" <nh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Winter wrote:
> This strikes me as far too complicated.  There is no need to
> distinguish NaN values from numeric values.

Hi Lee,

I'm thinking ahead to compressed intervals. In that case, we need some 
encoding that distinguishes the Empty interval from the bare decorations. 
For example:
   bits(NaN) + bits(NaN)
could be a good encoding for the Empty interval and
   bits(NaN) + bits(decoration)
could be a good encoding for the bare decorations where bits(decoration) is 
a unique (non-NaN) bit string to distinguish between dac, def, ndf, gap, 
etc.

Sincerely,

Nate