is real an 80-bit type or not?

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Dec 17 16:09:50 PST 2006


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Don Clugston" <dac at nospam.com.au> wrote in message 
> news:em43j6$7tl$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>> It is a bit weird that D has 'cent' and 'ucent' as reserved words, but not 
>> 'quadruple'.
> 
> I'd hope it'd be just "quad" :S  "quadruple" is a little lengthy.

That could be trouble for 3D apps where 'quad' is commonly used as an 
abbreviation for 'quadrilateral'.  As in glBegin(GL_QUADS).

That said, I'm sure we could all cope.

--bb


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