Hi,
On Monday, 2010-03-22 16:16:53 +0100, Michael Brauer wrote:
> It seems to me that most if not all portable notes are in one of these
> categories
>
> 1) Portable Notes/Constrains that list values that are supported by all
> known implementations.
[...]
> My suggestion is that we turn these notes into normative statements that
> declare the support of the values listed as portable constrains to be
> mandatory. Other values that are not part of the current portable
> constrains when would become optional.
+1
> 2) Portable Notes/Constrains that provide hints where behavior is
> implementation dependent and that possibly provide recommendations how
> to avoid that behavior in expressions.
[...]
> I suggest that the turn these kind of portable notes into
> recommendations to expression authors or implementors.
I agree. Before I wasn't even aware that we could use
"Note: Expression authors ..."
in a standard. Nitpick: instead of "implementations" we should use
"evaluators", yes?
Patrick, if no one objects please go ahead with these changes building
on draft22a I uploaded Thursday.
Thanks
Eike
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