> On Apr 25, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> on Mon Apr 25 2016, Stephen Canon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> On Apr 23, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> A few things…
>>>
>>> First, something absent: I'm a little bit concerned by the act that
>>> there's no means to convert between different concrete FloatingPoint
>>> types. Something like the IntMax mechanism in Swift 2's IntegerType
>>> might be useful, though there may be good reasons not to do that.
>>
>> There are concrete conversions between all built in float types.
>> Those aren’t going away. Are you saying that you want init(_ value:
>> Float) etc to be protocol requirements?
>
> IIUC, what's being suggested is
>
> init<T: FloatingPoint>(_ x: T)
inits between different radices, while a feature we’d probably like to have
eventually, are out of scope for this proposal.
The proposal does have:
init<Source: BinaryFloatingPoint>(_ value: Source)
– Steve
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