[std-interval] Suggestions for the 2006-09 draft

[R. Baker Kearfott]

Bill, John,

I have the same sentiments as both of you.

Baker

At 09:55 AM 9/21/2006 +0100, Dr John Pryce wrote:
>Bill
>
>At 22:18 20/09/06, you wrote:
>>The 2006-09 (revision 1) draft is much better than earlier versions. 
>>See: 
>><http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2067.pdf> 
>>The authors have done a lot of work and should be commended for it.
>
>I liked your comments. I feel Guillaume and colleagues tend to see 
>things too much from the implementation viewpoint and you have 
>emphasized principles. In particular I am massively in favour of 
>"opaqueness" of the data representation. But, being a C++ beginner, I 
>can't comment on issues that depend on details of the language spec.
>
>Opaqueness raises the question of how to tie the precision of 
>interval<T> to that of T, which I posed in a posting one or two days 
>ago. As their text stands, I believe that opaqueness would allow the 
>implementations of interval<float>, interval<double> and 
>interval<long double> to be all identical.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Regards
>
>John
>
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