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Re: dependent and independent intervals, proposal to toss out text2interval. Was re: about emp (was: Motion 42:no)



On 2013-02-20 10:56:01 -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
> 4.  It is generally not good to
> put new, experimental, untested ideas in a standard.

You missed the point. Such ideas about alternate arithmetics are *not*
in the standard. They are just not forbidden.

Well, things related to decorations are actually untested ideas
(moreover, with many disagreements). But that's another subject.
If there is something that should be rejected for being untested
is the decoration system...

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