Re: label-elements proposal

On 9/6/07, Innovimax SARL <innovimax@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/07, Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> wrote:
> >
> > Based on what I've heard so far, here is the most inclusive proposal:
> >
> >  * We add an option called "scheme" that defaults to "integer".  All other
> >    values are implementation defined.  A minimally conforming implementation
> >    must support "integer".
>
> please call it "decimal"

Decimals include fractional numbers like 10.575.  We'd have to call
it "decimal-integer" or something like that.

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--Alex Milowski
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