We need to clarify if 'real' is the 'default floating point type' or not.

[Lionello Lunesu]

D should establish some kind of politburo. A group of elders, each with his 
(..her?) own problem domain. Don should clearly govern the floating point 
aspects of D and just get to do what he thinks is best. : )

To me, this 'real' problem sounds a lot like the 'int' problem: why should 
'int' be established as the default integral type, when it is inefficient on 
64-bit hardware (and on 16-bit, 8-bit, .... )?

D's very proud of having fixed sized types, and rightly so, but there 
clearly are situations where size doesn't matter, and shouldn't matter. Of 
course, there's a minimum limit, when any smaller would just be ridiculous. 
...uh... nevermind.

So I think we should have 2 new aliases. One for a default int (at least 
32-bit) and one for a default float (at least double). On X86/87 these new 
aliases would map to int and real respectively.

Coming up with good names without silly adjectives/underscores will be 
difficult, though. I, for one, can't come up with any names that 'have it in 
them' to replace the omnipresent 'int' and 'real'...

L.