I'd rather this didn't happen... now we will always have to remember that "float32" is really what everybody else calls "float", "float64" is really what everybody else calls "double", and "float80" is... who knows... maybe the x87 extended double...
It is a "double", what's the problem with calling it a "double"?
On 11/26/14 14:42 , Eliot Miranda wrote:
No. Bert suggested (IIRC) ImmediateFloat64 and BoxedFloat64 and I went with SmallFloat64 and BoxedFloat64 for two reasons. SmallFloat64 because I like the symmetry with SmallInteger, and because this name scheme gracefully admits SmallFloat32, BoxedFloat32 and BoxedFloat80 if ever there was the energy to add them.