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Re: Status of recirculation ballot



On 2015-04-14 11:44:36 -0400, Michel Hack wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:43:22 +0200, Vincent wrote, regarding my
> suggestion of:
> >>                                        Its value is x_com, or, in
> >>  a single-flavor implementation that does not support "com", that
> >>  flavor's equivalent decoration.
> 
> > Shouldn't this sentence be rewritten with newDec, as the following?
> >   Its value is newDec(x).
> 
> Yes, that would be better.  I had been wondering whether to mention
> newDec(), and this is the right way to do that.

Actually this introduces a change, because for any no-yet specified
flavor, if x is common, newDec(x) is not required to return x_com.
So, perhaps:

  Its value is x_com, or, in a single-flavor implementation that does
  not support "com", newDec(x).

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