Deprecate real

[ixid via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:49:19 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> 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.

In that case should it not be defined to be something other than 
80 bit doubles on x86?