128 bit signed and unsigned integer types

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Sun Dec 28 03:52:04 PST 2008


Walter Bright:
> You know, the unimplemented 128 bit integer types.
> Does anyone have a use for these?

I have already answered something in another post.
But instead of asking us/yourself if we can use the feature X, why don't you think about implementing the features Y and Z that are most useful to programmers, like, for example, named arguments (and several other things discussed in the past)? I can find many uses for named arguments and only one or two for 128-big integral numbers...

I know the story of the car/horse by Ford, but often the users know what they need :-) I may use several things currently absent in D2 while I have little use of many of the things recently added/modified in D2. (for example I may like the idea of vector operations, but so far I haven't used them yet in actual programs, while I can think of several other things missing still that I can find useful today, that are missing still in D2).

Bye,
bearophile



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