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

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On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 16:50:52 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> Java initially tried to enforce a maximum precision, and it was 
> a major disaster for them. If I have been unable to convince 
> you, I suggest reviewing that case history.

It was recently on Hacker News. Here is one of the relevant 
rants: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf

Page 16 is probably the core argument "Linguistically legislated 
exact reproducibility is unenforceable", but everything Kahan 
says here is worth listening to (despite the ugly presentation).