In principle, having Float, Float32, and Float64 and no “Double” at all seems highly sensible to me.
In practice, the migration cost of changing the meaning of Float from “32-bit” to “platform preferred size” seems like a potential deal-killer. P > On Jan 5, 2016, at 2:25 PM, Alex Johnson via swift-evolution > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to clarify: I was suggesting removing the name "Double" and giving a > different meaning to the name "Float". > > ~ Alex > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Chris Lattner <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > These are functionally different cases. We are *omitting* a C feature by > removing ++ and --. This proposal included keeping the name “Double” but > giving it a different meaning. > > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
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