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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/6/2016 3:14 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 21:56:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Let me rephrase the question - how does fusing them alter the result?
>
> There is just one rounding operation instead of two.

Makes sense.


> Of course, if floating point values are strictly defined as having only a
> minimum precision, then folding away the rounding after the multiplication is
> always legal.

Yup.

So it does make sense that allowing fused operations would be equivalent to 
having no maximum precision.