One of the things I like about the Julia community is a broad preference for clarity over brevity. Think of it as the opposite of the Perl culture.
In this case, Float would be less, rather than more, clear because our Float would describe a type that most languages would call Double. -- John On Jul 29, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Júlio Hoffimann <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-07-29 19:32 GMT-03:00 John Myles White <[email protected]>: > I think the confusion is that Julio assumes Int is used for brevity, when it > is actually used for cross-platform compability. > > -- John > > Yes, I assumed the Int alias had these two goals: brevity + portability. I > still think a cleaner Float alias would be useful to avoid typing 64 > everywhere. > > Júlio.
