Re: Processing "no" votes associated with standards text
Dan, Vincent, et al,
Our P&P stipulates that the commentary associated with "no"
votes is to be considered as a motion to amend.
Are there any objections to putting all such "no"
vote commentary into one motion, after the voting on this
portion of the standards text runs its course, and then
seeking a second? Also, it is logical that such a
motion to amend be processed according to the rules
for position papers.
Best regards,
Baker
On 03/27/2012 10:34 PM, Dan Zuras Intervals wrote:
> Folks,
>
> This motion defines nums2bareinterval, text2bareinterval,
> bareempty,& bareentire in some detail& then goes on to
> define decorated constructors as something of an
> afterthought.
>
> It is my opinion that bare intervals will be of great
> utility to optimizing compilers to reduce both storage&
> computation for those applications that can PROVABLY do
> without decorations. But I believe it will turn out to
> be poor programming practice for users to create bare
> intervals on their own.
>
> Of course, it must be possible for users to do this. So
> we must provide something like a makeBare. But to provide
> a complete set of operations supporting bare intervals as
> a first class datatype makes us complicit in that poor
> programming practice.
>
> For when the rocket blows up due to some decoration being
> ignored, finding
>
> xx = makeBare(nums2interval(a,b));
>
> in the code makes it the programmer's fault. Finding
>
> xx = nums2bareinterval(a,b);
>
> makes it our fault.
>
> And, as I would rather not be named in a $1 billion lawsuit,
> I vote NO on this motion.
>
> I would vote yes if the bare versions of these constructors
> were removed.
>
>
> Dan
>
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