PROPOSAL: Implicit conversions of integer literals to floating point

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu Dec 30 12:07:46 PST 2010


Alex_Dovhal:

> But people don't expect 1/2 to return 0.5000 and D isn't C++ 

There are languages that have had to wait for a major language update to reach that:
http://ideone.com/YdFbl

While other ones have gotten it right from the beginning (Scheme numerical tower is well designed):
http://ideone.com/q2Hot

Bye,
bearophile


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