[swift-evolution] [swift-evolution-announce] [Review] SE-0067: Enhanced Floating Point Protocols

[Rainer Brockerhoff]

On 4/23/16 21:53, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution wrote:
>> public protocol FloatingPoint: Comparable, IntegerLiteralConvertible {
>> public protocol BinaryFloatingPoint: FloatingPoint, FloatLiteralConvertible {
> 
> Any reason why FloatLiteralConvertible isn't on FloatingPoint?

While I'm not competent to comment on the other points, I would venture
to suggest that, in order to accomodate a future Decimal type (and
DecimalFloatingPoint protocol), a BinaryFloatLiteralConvertible may be a
necessary subset of FloatLiteralConvertible - as some literals don't
have a lossless binary representation, etc.

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