Re: Why don't we switch to C like floating pointed arithmetic instead of automatic expansion to reals?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/6/2016 3:14 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 21:56:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Let me rephrase the question - how does fusing them alter the result?

There is just one rounding operation instead of two.

Makes sense.


Of course, if floating point values are strictly defined as having only a
minimum precision, then folding away the rounding after the multiplication is
always legal.

Yup.

So it does make sense that allowing fused operations would be equivalent to 
having no maximum precision.