On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Canon <sca...@apple.com> wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Naive question: is it necessary to make a trade-off here? Why not an > associated type Exponent that's Int for Float, Double, and Float80, > allowing for something else for bignums? > > > It’s an added (fairly minor) complexity to the API surface that confers > approximately zero benefit.
Fair. I know it's silly, but it feels a little inelegant that for a binary floating point type both `exponent` and `exponentBitCount` are of type Int. > > – Steve _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
