Giving up

[Max Samukha]

On Saturday, 6 August 2022 at 08:29:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/5/2022 9:43 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
>> Both "123." and "123.E123" is valid C. For some reason, D only 
>> copied the former.
>
> It's to support UFCS (Universal Function Call Syntax).

UFCS could still be supported with the exception of functions 
named like exponents. (I am not advocating for it.)

> aaaand, the truth comes out. It is not representable, it is 
> truncated to 0. Technically, ImportC should accept it. But if 
> it does, doesn't it mislead users into thinking it is non-zero?
>
> We've got the right choice here, but it's definitely a 
> judgement call.

No objections to this.