On Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 10:13:56 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 12/19/2012 12:47 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 19-12-2012 08:35, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-12-19 08:30, Walter Bright wrote:
https://github.com/D-**Programming-Language/phobos/**pull/1018/files<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1018/files>
Cool, Walter does a pull request. Should this be put in the review queue
or is this a small enough change to be added anyway?
Seems a bit overkill to throw it in the review queue, but I don't know how
rigorous we want to be about that.
Probably the main point of this module is to demonstrate how to do new
arithmetic types like this without needing compiler support. It also shows
how to do IEEE floating point rounding correctly, which is not obvious and
not trivial.
How difficult would you think it would be to scale down (or up) this
library type so it can be an emulated IEEE type of any size? (The whole
shebang eg: quarter, half, single, double, quad, double-quad, 80bit and
96-bit). Just interested as I think that a module which implements an
IEEE floating point type that produces constant results cross-platform
would be better than a dedicated module just for half float types.
What is the difference between std.numeric.CustomFloat and this?