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Re: Status of recirculation ballot



On 2015-04-14 17:22:37 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> There seems to be a problem with the first paragraph or §8.3:
> 
>   A flavor may provide the decoration com with the following
>   propagation rule for library arithmetic operations. In an
>   implementation with more than one flavor, each flavor shall
>   do so.

After some thoughts, this doesn't seem to make sense. The
specification of a flavor doesn't depend on an implementation.
This means that any flavor shall support com. However, as a
special case, one may decide to allow an *implementation* of
a flavor not to support com. But one needs to check whether
this can yield a contradiction.

BTW, all-flavor literals would not make much sense in an
implementation that doesn't support com.

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