food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Apr 15 20:46:40 UTC 2019


On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 01:15:07PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 4/15/2019 5:54 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> > Then they were incorrect and removing them was reasonable. But of
> > course, in this case this anecdote has no bearing on the current
> > discussion: you removed them (instead of fixing them), because they
> > were too hard to implement, not because they were too easy to
> > implement. :)
> 
> I removed them because they were implemented as trivia, and hence
> offered no value. (Yes, that is not just a reformulation of the reason
> you gave.)
> 
> If they were implemented in such a way as to offer value that 1/sin
> did not, then I would have considered retaining them.

Didn't he just say that 1/sin gives different rounding behaviour from a
correct, direct implementation of csc?


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