suggested improvements to D

[Don Clugston]

Warren D Smith wrote:
> Unfortunately the response to my "suggested improvements to D,"
> oddly, was not uniformly "of course we'll do that immediately."
> 
> Let me reiterate my case.  First, D'ers have already agreed by consensus to add
> IEEE-float hooks to handle NaNs, rounding, etc.
> Good.  That means you already have admitted you
> agree with my philosophy that the language
> must provide the underlying power of the machine (for any feature
> that a large number of machine hardwares now supply) to the user.
> Not deny it.

Indeed, it's always been part of the philosophy of D (that's why D 
supports 80-bit reals, for example).
About six months ago, Walter said that he does intend to add more 
intrinsics, but that it's a difficult thing to do, so it's been pushed 
down on the list of priorities. Don't worry, it will happen eventually. 
But certainly not immediately.