  "Interval Arithmetic" (IA) appears to be a useful numerical tool to have at
hand in several applications. Alas, the current IA descriptions and proposed
standards are always formulated in terms of the IEEE-754 standard, and the
status of IEEE-754 compliance of most Common Lisp implementations is not up to
par. A solution would be for Common Lisp implementations to adhere to the
Language Independent Arithmetic} (LIA) IEC standard, which includes IEEE/754.
While the LIA standard provides a set of proposed bindings for Common Lisp, the
format and depth of the specification documents is not readily usable by a
Common Lisp programmer, should an implementation decide to comply with the
provisions. Moreover, much latitude is left to each implementation to provide
the LIA "environmental" setup. It would be most beneficial if more precision
were agreed upon by the Common Lisp community about how to provide LIA
compliance in the implementations. In that case, a new set of documentation or
manuals in the style of the HyperSpec could be provided, for the benefit of the
Common Lisp programmer.
