bearophile Wrote:

> In Bugzilla I have just added an enhancement request that asks for a little 
> change in D, I don't know if it was already discussed or if it's already 
> present in Bugzilla:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5864

Loosing precision on a fractional number seems like it would be a very common 
and desirable case. For one thing even dealing with real doesn't mean you won't 
have errors, you really end up in very tricky areas when using float over 
double would actually cause issue in the program.

I'm not sure if this would be the best avenue to take in identifying possible 
performance issues with converting FP.

And last, don't forget about significant figures. This suggests it would be 
better to produce an error when widening since you really don't have the 
precision of a double or real.

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