Re: Remove Enum from Float and Double

2013-06-12 Thread harry
Johan Tibell johan.tibell@... writes: If we truly believe that the instance is dangerous for users (and not merely for people who don't understand floating point arithmetic on computers), then we should add a deprecation pragma to the instance and discourage its use. But what would the

Re: Remove Enum from Float and Double

2013-06-12 Thread harry
Tillmann Rendel rendel@... writes: In general, I would be against removing features just because they are confusing for beginners. I don't think that's a good design principle for a language that is primarily targeted at professional programmers and computer scientists. They're confusing