On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:07:44 UTC, ixid wrote:
Are there any reasons not to put real on the path to removal?
The hardware is deprecated by both Intel and AMD and it seems
like an unnecessary source of confusion.
I've never found real confusing.
However, I do see some people confused by the fact that floating
point operations may do intermediate steps at higher precision.
Walter has provided the reasoning before and I think I agree with
it. However, I think a case could be made for having an option to
disable it and force intermediate calculations to be done at the
precision of the type. I would consider it to be something of low
importance, but other people might value it more.
