Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!quiroz From: quiroz@rochester.UUCP (Cesar Quiroz) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: ANSI C suggestions Message-ID: <2159@rochester.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 01:12:30 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2159 Posted: Sun Oct 14 01:12:30 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 01:40:57 EDT References: <228@boulder.UUCP> Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 19 OOPS! I did it again. Sorry, in my previous posting there is at least one 'too' that should be 'to'. Typing postings in Saturday nights seems dangerous all across the network: > As long as we are discussing improvements to the language, I would > like to suggest a couple: > > (1) Get rid of that requirement that all floating point arithmetic > be done in floating point. ????? At first impression, looks like old-style Forth ("you can do it with integers") is striking back. Happily enough, it seems the intention was "be done in double precision", a much saner proposition. (If this interpretation is another effect of the time of the day, please correct me). Ok, time to sleep, get away from the keyboards ... Cesar