Remove real type

abcd s at tmp.com
Wed Apr 21 19:20:59 PDT 2010


On the other hand, being an engineer, I use the reals all the time and 
want them to stay. I would use the max precision supported by the cpu 
then fixed precision like double any day.

-sk

Walter Bright wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> I suggest to remove the real type from D2 because:
> 
> D being a systems programming language should give access to the types 
> supported by the CPU. If you don't like real, don't use it! It's not 
> hard to avoid.
> 
> Furthermore, reals are supported by gcc and dmc, and part of D's mission 
> is to interoperate with C's data types.



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