half and quad

[Janice Caron]

On 10/13/07, Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Janice Caron wrote:
> > Of course this is never going to happen! :-)
>
> And thank God for that.  No offense, but I get annoyed having to type
> "toUtf8" every once in a while with Tango; having to qualify every damn
> type with a bit size would drive me up the wall.

Well, except that you'd just use int, uint and real most of the time,
so no biggie.

That said, if new types are going to be introduced, we might as well
at least consider what they should be called, and whether "half" and
"quad" are the best names.