On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:09:59AM +0000, Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 01:31:17 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote: [...] > >Because of this, I propose to add float and double overloads (at the > >very least the double ones) for all of the commonly used functions in > >std.math. This is unlikely to break much code, but: > > a) Somebody could rely on the fact that the calls effectively widen > > the calculation to 80 bits on x86 when using type deduction. > > b) Additional overloads make e.g. "&floor" ambiguous without > > context, of course. > > > >What do you think? [...] > I honestly alway thought that it was a little odd that it forced > conversion to real. Personally I support this. It would also make > generic code that calls math functions more simple as it wouldn't > require casts back.
I support this too. T -- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. -- Sammy
