Deprecate real

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 30 03:49:19 PDT 2017


On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:44:41 UTC, ixid wrote:
> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:26:03 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:07:44 UTC, ixid wrote:
>>> Are there any reasons not to put real on the path to removal? 
>>> The hardware is deprecated by both Intel and AMD and it seems 
>>> like an unnecessary source of confusion.
>>
>> Don't forget that real is only fp80 on x86. On AArch64(?) it 
>> is/should be fp128 which _is_ supported, there is also PowerPC 
>> double double.
>
> Isn't it an objective of D to move away from such confusing 
> types and have defined widths?

D does have well defined floating point types.
float and double.

real is a special type for people who know what they are dong.
And not to be removed.




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