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P1788 There are firmly held, and well argued, views on both sides of this debate. I continue to believe that passing Motion 36 will NOT cause significant delay to a set-based standard and indeed may speed things up. I thank Michel Hack for his arguments in favour of this. Here is my effort at writing a flavor-oriented "Chapter 1: Introduction" of the standard text. It comprises these existing clauses: §1 Overview $2 Ideas underlying the standard (was "Introduction") §3 Notation, abbreviations, definitions §4 Structure of the standard in levels §5 Flavors §6 Conformance requirements (omitted for now, as they will need much revision whatever happens) - I haven't changed the "To the P1788 reader" in red at the start, so ignore that. - §1 is also unchanged; I think it has statements about conformance that contradict some of our votes. - §2-§4 have some new material and some revisions. - §5 is all new. Please look at it and get a feel for how it reads. Whether it will change firmly held views I cannot say! What comes next is "Chapter 2: Set-based flavor". Its Level 1 part, at least, is hardly impacted at all by the introduction of flavors. I am working on set-based Level 2, but so far just to make it compatible with our current Level 1, ignoring flavors. BTW I have made section (clause) numbers count up independent of Chapters, so the latter are just "optical dividers" for the text, as someone said. E.g. Chapter 2 begins with §7 and one references its first subsection as 7.1. (Not as 2.7.1, i.e. not mentioning the chapter number.) I think this is a good scheme. Regards John Pryce
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