Why does D not have generics?

Sat Jan 16 08:45:23 UTC 2021

On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 08:41:18 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 18:11:04 UTC, Bruce Carneal wrote:
>> value types of the same size.  This shows up when implementing 
>> radix sort where one solution is to map to/from whole numbers 
>> (NaN semantics being ignored).
>
> If we accept the following encoding for floating point then it 
> should work out ok?
>
> INPUT               OUTPUT
> s  exp  sig         s  exp  sig
>
> 1  1100 1111110     0  0011 0000001
> 1  0011 0000001     0  1100 1111110
> 1  0000 0000000     0  1111 1111111
>
> 0  0000 0000000     1  0000 1111111

Typo:
   0  0000 0000000     1  0000 0000000

Maybe I am overlooking something... This is like 1-2 cycles.