From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Thu Aug 14 23:47:14 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h7ELlE6a074710 for sc22wg5-domo; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:47:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h7ELjfEc074701 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:47:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:42:36 -0700 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.20.211]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71686U2500L200S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:45:33 -0700 Received: by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (Postfix, from userid 201) id 2A446357DC; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:45:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <16188.760.73290.581423@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:45:28 -0700 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: (SC22WG5.2936) clarification of technical intent in N1553 In-Reply-To: <200308141453.h7EErqak072620@dkuug.dk> References: <200308141453.h7EErqak072620@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Malcolm Cohen writes: > this is indeed merely a proposal that is > being made *to* the 754r committee, This suggests that I could write a paper proposing that NaNs be output as the string "Like, this is strange, dude." and it would have just as much standing. You could certainly draw some pretty strange and inconsistent conclusions if you took every paper that appears in a J3 or WG5 distribution as a proposal by J3/WG5. I've seen people do things like that and had to point out the distinction. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; Richard.Maine@nasa.gov | experience comes from bad judgment. | -- Mark Twain