RE: Datatypes Draft Questions & Comments

At 10:51 AM 8/31/02 +0300, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com wrote:
>Well, those were desiderada put forth by WG members. If the
>final proposed solution does not address them, then we should
>say so clearly. But they still remain valid input into the
>process.
>
>It certainly would be possible to try to do some wordsmithing
>to make them clearer.

I think it's reasonable to view the desiderata as part of the process of 
arriving at a specification, rather than something that has to considered 
part of the final specification.

To the extent that they aid understanding (the motivation of) the spec, I 
think it's helpful to leave them.  But if we've dramatically scaled back 
the goals of datatyping, I don't think it necessarily helps to include them 
in the reduced document.

#g


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Graham Klyne
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