Re: Motion to finalise interval literals
John, Richard, P-1788,
On 06/09/2013 01:22 AM, John Pryce wrote:
Richard and P1788
On 9 Jun 2013, at 01:27, Richard Fateman wrote:
On 6/8/2013 6:32 AM, John Pryce wrote:
Jürgen and P1788
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writing text files.
I think that I differ in my view of what the standard is aiming for...
I find your arguments quite strong and am more inclined to make interval literals (ILs) optional. But do you and Jürgen intend
- text2interval "should" be provided, and if it is, it *shall* accept
the stated syntax & semantics?
I'm a bit confused here. I understand the "semantics," but what
about the "syntax"? I'm thinking about 754: it specifies the
behavior of floating point arithmetic, but does not
spell out the details of programming language function
calls (e.g. "in the hal-2001 language the floating point
addition of adding x and y and storing it in z must be
effected by the text string "z = IWillAddItRight(x,y)" ).
Are we really dealing with syntax at all in 1788, or
just semantics?
Baker
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