- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:30:51 -0500
- To: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Bruce Lawson <brucel@opera.com>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl> wrote: > Notation for negative quantities usually starts with a minus (with > exceptions for bookkeeping). It still does even though ASCII unified the > hyphen with the minus. > We cannot perform interval arithmetic on intervals with unknown limits or > compare them. Automated processing tools would not benefit from the ability > to recognize such intervals in markup even though they often occur in > ancient biographies. Indeed. I see little to no benefit to being able to mark up one-sided intervals in a machine-readable format; specifically, I don't see any way to justify the difficulty of handling it in the syntax. ~TJ
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