On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 July 2017 at 06:00, Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> On 2017/07/03 2:15, Dean Rasheed wrote:
>>> My first thought was UNBOUNDED ABOVE/BELOW, because that matches the
>>> terminology already in use of upper and lower bounds.
>>
>> I was starting to like the Ashutosh's suggested UNBOUNDED MIN/MAX syntax,
>> but could you clarify your comment that ABOVE/BELOW is the terminology
>> already in use of upper and lower bounds? I couldn't find ABOVE/BELOW in
>> our existing syntax anywhere that uses the upper/lower bound notion, so
>> was confused a little bit.
>>
>
> I just meant that the words "above" and "below" more closely match the
> already-used terms "upper" and "lower" for the bounds, so that
> terminology seemed more consistent, e.g. "UNBOUNDED ABOVE" => no upper
> bound.
>
>
>> Also, I assume UNBOUNDED ABOVE signifies positive infinity and vice versa.
>>
>
> Right.
>
> I'm not particularly wedded to that terminology. I always find naming
> things hard, so if anyone can think of anything better, let's hear it.
Yet another option: UNBOUNDED UPPER/LOWER.
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