Re: Motion 44.01 PLEASE VOTE - I vote No
Bill
On 31 May 2013, at 03:14, Corliss, George wrote:
On May 30, 2013 6:29:08 PM CDT, Bill Walster wrote:
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> I am unable (perhaps it is me) to determine if the scheme implemented in Sun's implementation of string to interval and interval to string conversion will be standard conforming or not. The Sun Fortran 95 implementation explicitly deals with strings as infinitely precise decimal numbers versus strings in which interval width is determined by the last decimal digit in a string.
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> If the Sun Fortran implementation is standard conforming, or if the draft can be updated to allow the sun string conversion implementation to be standard conforming, I will change my vote to Yes.
I have much respect for the Sun Fortran implementation and we could probably learn from it about this issue. Could you just remind us of the details of its scheme that you mention above? And also how much it overlaps with the scheme in the Vienna proposal, which has a similar feature of "infinitely precise decimal numbers versus ... interval width determined by the last decimal digit"?
John Pryce