Question/request/bug(?) re. floating-point in dmd

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 7 November 2013 at 20:02:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/7/2013 8:55 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> What about something like the following?
>>
>> double x;
>> double y;
>> with (strictprecision) {
>>   y = x;
>> }
>
> That has immediate problems with things like function calls 
> that might or might not be inlined.

it could apply only to operations on fundamental types within the 
region and guarantee nothing for any called code. It could even 
guarantee to not apply to any called code even if inlined. I 
think in practice this wouldn't be particularly inconvenient.