Questions about IEEE754 floating point in D

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>> I have a vague recollection that this bizarre definition is for 
>>> compatibility with an ancient mistake in C. Some clown miscalculated 
>>> it, and by the time people realized, they felt it was too late to fix 
>>> it.
>>
>> Then it sounds like something D should get right.
> 
> There's a problem with that - porting working C numerics code to D.

Let's do what we know works - define the right thing with a different 
name, and deprecate the existing name.

Andrei