"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> writes:
> 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. Me three. This seems like an unnecessary pessimisation and it would be irritating for D to become associated with slow fp math.
