Re: ISSUE-53 Proposal to resolve

Bijan wrote:
> Of course, issues are just a mechanism for the chairs to manage 
> things, but I would suggest that issue-5 be closed based on the fact 
> that the raiser has, in effect, withdrawn it (see one of jeremy's last 
> email). Thus, there's no one left who owns that, and the phraseology 
> is unfortunate. ISSUE-53, on the other hand, has an in group owner, 
> has not been withdrawn, and would need an answer if we don't adopt at 
> least 3.
>
> Any of the technical issues in ISSUE-5 can be reraised in a better 
> context. 

I second Bijan's proposal.  While the HP issues with N-ary datatypes 
probably did push us to look more
deeply issues with datatypes (computational -vs- numeric), haven't these 
initial comments been overtaken
by events?

-Evan