On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Kristof Zelechovski <[email protected]> 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
