Deprecate real

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

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.

I've never found real confusing.

However, I do see some people confused by the fact that floating 
point operations may do intermediate steps at higher precision. 
Walter has provided the reasoning before and I think I agree with 
it. However, I think a case could be made for having an option to 
disable it and force intermediate calculations to be done at the 
precision of the type. I would consider it to be something of low 
importance, but other people might value it more.