RM=Raul Miller, DB=me:
RM>  I. becoming tolerant would be a breaking change
RM>  in the language ... So I do not consider potential
RM>  language change to be a valid design issue.

I have less confidence in this inference than you do, especially in the context 
of tolerance (or other implementation, as opposed to
notation, changes) [1].

DB>  Nested trains can definitely be leveraged to re-use calculations.  

RM>  I usually prefer to avoid such approaches

To each his own, of course.  And my threshold for "going explicit" is higher 
than most.

-Dan

[1]  Though the fact that I.'s intolerance is called out in its very definition 
is a good sign (OTOH, it could also just be a
warning; I suspect if Roger could've easily made I. tolerant, he would have, 
and I.'s intolerance stems from fundamental
difficulties in providing tolerance, or reliance on other intolerance 
functions).


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