From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Floating Point and Other Such Mysteries
Article-I.D.: rabbit.757
Posted: Sun Sep 19 10:42:40 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 03:57:57 1982
References: sri-unix.3338

The trouble with saying that an expression is float unless some
wider context needs it as double is that then when you see

	a + b

and a and b are both float, you don't know the true meaning of +.
It seems a bad idea in general to make the interpretation of an
expression depend on its context.