[swift-evolution] Thoughts on clarity of Double and Float type names?

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Wed Jun 22 00:57:18 CDT 2016


> On Jun 20, 2016, at 4:22 AM, Ben Rimmington via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swift.evolution/2199/focus=18327>
> 
> I hope it's not too late to submit a proposal.
> 
> [stdlib/public/core/FloatingPointTypes.swift.gyb]
> 
> 	public struct Float32: BinaryFloatingPoint
> 	public struct Float64: BinaryFloatingPoint
> 	public struct Float80: BinaryFloatingPoint

FWIW, I think it is extremely unlikely that we would go away from Float/Double.

-Chris


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