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Re: Portable syntax of interval literals

Richard Fateman wrote:
> There is an interchange standard for IEEE754 numbers specifying
> the endpoint of the intervals, namely as IEEE754 numbers.

This is the binary (raw) interchange format, whose specification
is in fact somewhat incomplete because it does not (and cannot,
realistically) address byte order.

Here we are talking about text strings, and IEEE 754-2008 does NOT
standardize notation for decimal strings (though it does so for
hexadecimal strings).  And if we wanted to require hex notation in
the portable format, we would be in trouble for DFP intervals!

Michel.
---Sent: 2013-09-28 18:45:30 UTC