Implementing Half Floats in D

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2013-49-29 08:01, Tove <tove at fransson.se> wrote:

> 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.

Except that's not a literal. 1.3.hf would be a function call, while hf!1.3f
is a template instantiation.

-- 
Simen