From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 16:18:18 CST
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> Therefore, FIX 3 says "just leave out negative-distributions entirely".
>> All problems cases then disappear.
>> My recommendation would be to adopt FIX 3.
> I'd support that. Distributions are often used incorrectly now; that
> can only get worse if the wording describing them becomes much more
> complex, which it does with negative distributions.
I've been in favor of this fix for a while, so I'll support this as well.
If, later on, someone comes up with a compelling application for negative
distributions, it's easy enough to write an experimental draft specifying
them.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>