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Re: PLEASE VOTE P1788/M0061:RevisedFlavorsText

Dear 1788 members,

I vote YES on motion 61 Flavors Text.

However, I have a comment on the wording of one paragraph that we should
revise when we vote on the final text. On the first page the current
text says:
"    Flavor is a property of program execution context, not of an
individual interval. Therefore, just one flavor shall be in force at any
point of execution. It is recommended that at the language level, the
flavor should be constant over a procedure/function or a compilation
unit."

The above text is valid in general for an execution context that
computes a result. However, if a library procedure/function is written
to convert between flavors then it cannot follow the restrictive
condition of "one flavor shall be in force". The standard must allow for
such conversion routines to deal with multiple flavors simultaneously. 

Thanks and best regards

-- 
Dr. Hossam A. H. Fahmy
Associate Professor
Electronics and Communications Engineering
Cairo University
Egypt