Implementing Half Floats in D

[Tove]

On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 23:58:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 3:30 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>> On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 23:11:11 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/implementing-half-floats-in-d/240146674
>>>
>>> Anyone care to do the reddit honors?
>>
>> [quote]
>>   and crushed back down to 16 bytes for storage.
>> [/quote]
>>
>>  Should be bits. Otherwise it looks really well done.
>
> thank you. Sorry that didn't get caught in review!

"HalfFloat h = hf!1.3f;"

Maybe you could also demonstrate that it's possible to implement 
another literal syntax?
HalfFloat h = 1.3.hf;

some people will prefer that for sure.