From: Bert Freudenberg <
bert@freudenbergs.de>
Subject: Re: Float hierarchy for 64-bit Spur
Date: 24. November 2014 11:50:34 MEZ
To: Eliot Miranda <
eliot.miranda@gmail.com>
On 21.11.2014, at 19:08, Eliot Miranda <
eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
I think I'll go with
Float
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+------- BoxedDouble
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+——— SmallDouble
Sounds okay. I just had another thought: use "Float64" instead of "Double". That is how JavaScript names it, and I like how it communicates exactly what it is without having to implicitly know about the IEEE standard's nomenclature. Also, with the digits in the name it screams "low level", and would easily extend to 32 and 128 bit floats.
Float
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+------- BoxedFloat64
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+——— SmallFloat64