Re: "R" suffix for reals

[Era Scarecrow]

On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 03:42:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/6/2012 7:33 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
Was mostly commenting when I see L, I think 'long' right away, 
not 'long or
possibly float/double'.

The L comes from C and meant of "long double".

 Interesting; But still for me (and likely newbies) if it isn't 
innately obvious or easy to remember it is something I would 
forget and never use. Actually I have rarely used floating point 
to any degree (and when I did it was fairly simple).