Re: discussion period begins for Motion P1788.1/M002.01: Required operations
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Dear all,
IEEE Std 1788-2015 states on Page x that the Basic Standard for
Interval Arithmetic (aka P1788.1, if I am not mistaken) is supposed to
be a subset of the set-based flavor with enough restrictions to make
it "more accessible and speed up production of implementations".
I firmly believe that, in its current state, P1788.1 has gone too far
in its restrictions, and that functions of great practical relevance
should not have been omitted from it (specifically, at least all
reverse functions from Table 10.1 and mulRevToPair()).
More broadly, I believe that P1788.1 should be a complete restriction
of IEEE Std 1788-2015 to the set-based flavor with IEEE 754 double
precision bounds. I would accept omitting all/most recommended
functions, but all required functions for the set-based flavor should
be present.
In its current state, a library that would restrict itself to
implementing P1788.1 would be of no use to me, as it would offer less
core functionalities than I can obtain from current non-standard
compliant libraries.
Best regards,
FG.
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Frédéric Goualard LINA - UMR CNRS 6241
Tel.: +33 2 76 64 50 12 Univ. of Nantes - Ecole des Mines de Nantes
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http://frederic.goualard.net/ F-44322 NANTES CEDEX 3
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