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Re: Motion P1788/M0059: Level 3 description



Ian

On 2013 Dec 4, at 19:23, Ian McIntosh wrote:
> The suggested requirement that the only representation of 0 be [-0, +0] would hurt performance compared to allowing both ranges to be either zero.
Internally, an implementation may represent intervals as it likes. This rule is only for interchange format -- for files holding intervals in a binary form. I don't see that reading and writing such files is likely to be a significant overhead on interval programs.

John Pryce