(j3.2006) Materials for 199

[Malcolm Cohen]

>This seems superior to the cumbersome MACRO facility.

It also does not do anywhere near as much, and would appear to take more 
resources to implement.

>  More along the
>lines of templates, which are requested with some regularity.

It also does not do anywhere near as much as templates.

I will need to read the paper a bit more thoroughly, but on the face of it I 
think that it does not do sufficient to solve problems like the one motivating 
it.  Not enough "bang for the buck".  In fact it looks a bit too wartlike... or 
rather, like a new "tacked-on" feature.

>   It seems
>more like a candidate for F201x, than for another TS.

In my view anything big enough for to be worth making into a TS is too big for 
F201x.

>  But I don't
>really want to spend a lot of time on this at m199.  It is more
>appropriate for the Delft meeting.

If we don't start talking about the problems until Delft we won't be in a 
position to do anything about them.

Cheers,
-- 
................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.