Rob,
On 8/3/2010 10:50 AM, wrote:
> Patrick Durusau<> wrote on 08/03/2010 09:51:52 AM:
<snip>
> What is the alternative?
>
> "disabled: texture filtering shall not be enabled."
>
> But this is not really testable unless the semantics of "texture
> filtering" is fully defined.
>
> or we could say:
>
> "disabled: texture filtering is disabled."
>
> But that is just tautological.
>
> In other words being more precise about the force of the clause (mandatory
> versus optional behavior) is a secondary issue compared to developing a
> testable description of the semantics.
>
+1!
But, the effort to be more precise about the force of the clause
highlights the lack of testable semantics.
There are a number of issues like that for ODF-Next.
Hope you are having a great day!
Patrick
PS: Join the OpenFormula call soon! The music is starting to wear. ;-)
> -Rob
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