Vote on motions 0040 and 0041

["Hossam A. H. Fahmy" <hfahmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear P1788 members,

I vote Yes on both M0040 (Text of 1.7 and 1.8) and M0041 (text of clause
2).

Since these two motions are for actual standard text, I am providing
here some specific suggestions to take into account when the whole text
of the standard is revised as one unit. I remember in IEEE 754-2008, we
had several rounds of checking the whole text to clean it. I expect this
for 1788 as well.

1. In the file 20121219Clauses1-2.pdf, the first sentence of section 2.2
is "The 754-2008 standard ...". Later the same section refers to that
standard as IEEE-754-2008. In the second sentence of the same section,
the text refers to P1788. Obviously all of these references to standards
(including self-references) should be in a unified manner in the final
text of the standard when we consider it as a whole. I think the
editorial staff of IEEE will also check for such issues and change them
if we do not.


2. In section 2.1, within the paragraph introducing Kaucher and modal
intervals: After the text introduces proper and improper intervals of
Kaucher, the following sentence starts by "In the latter, ..." 

On a first reading I thought that "latter" is "improper of Kaucher" but
it is in fact a reference to modal. I suggest to change it to "In the
modal IA, ...".


Best regards
--
Hossam A. H. Fahmy
Associate Professor
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Cairo University
Egypt

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