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Re: Motion P1788.1/M005 to avoid non-conforming interval standards



On 2016-08-14 19:02:06 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2016-08-07 23:45:44 -0700, Dmitry Nadezhin wrote:
> > b) if string s = [l,u] is not an interval literal because l > u.
> >    Level 1 constructor has not value.
> >    1788.1 level 2 constructor may return
> >    either Empty/NaI
> >    or any interval which contains [u,l] .
> 
> I'm not sure that "which contains [u,l]" is really useful.

Or perhaps it is, so that code to return an interval containing both
l and u can be made easier (otherwise one could write hull([l],[u])).

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