On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 18:30:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
If you wrote it "to not break if the floating-point precision is enhanced, and to allow greater precision to be used when the hardware supports it" then what's the problem?Can you provide an example of a legitimate algorithm that produces degraded results if the precision is increased?
No, but I think that's not really relevant to the point I was making. Results don't have to be degraded to be inconsistent.
