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Re: Motion 46: finalise interval literals, amendments

Ned et al,

On 06/25/2013 04:37 PM, Ned Nedialkov wrote:

On 2013-06-23, at 10:21 PM, Jürgen Wolff von Gudenberg <wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

p1788  SHALL prescribe the strings that are valid inputs for text2intval

By text2interval, I would consider only converting a string to an interval, not two strings that represent an
interval to an interval. So, we can assume the same syntax of a string as let's say what C or Fortran assumes.


I\m not sure what you mean here.  How does specifying that
we have two text strings corresponding to numbers in a
particular programming language or in accepted mathematical
notation, separated by a comma and delimited by square
brackets, differ from specifying a single text string with
components having the same attributes?

A second thought:  Does anyone have any qualms about
specifying "[" and "]" concretely?  (Those symbols may
already have been used in programming languages
used to access the standard-conforming implementation.)

Best regards,

Baker

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