Why don't we switch to C like floating pointed arithmetic instead of automatic expansion to reals?

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 10:02:25 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 6 August 2016 at 11:48, Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 09:35:32 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>>
>
> No pragmas tied to a specific architecture should be allowed in 
> the language spec, please.

Hmmm, that's the whole point of pragmas (at least in C) to 
specify implementation specific stuff outside of the language 
specs. If it's in the language specs it should be done with 
language specific mechanisms.