Re: Exception handling
On 2013-08-12 13:36:58 -0400, Ian McIntosh wrote:
> For decorated interval results, decorations apply.
>
> For operations which produce an IEEE 754 floating point result instead of
> an IEEE 1788 interval result, standard 754 floating point exception
> handling should apply; for example, a result that needs rounding could
> signal inexact, or an operation like dot product could signal overflow.
As I've said in a private discussion, the way the questions were
asked was not clear. I think that the decision should be based on
the type of operation, e.g.
* interval -> interval
* other -> interval
* interval -> number (IEEE 754 format or not)
* interval -> text
* reduction operations
That's at least 6 cases (including the 2 cases for interval -> number).
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