Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site geowhiz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!geowhiz!karsh From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: ANSI C suggestions Message-ID: <141@geowhiz.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 04:03:51 EDT Article-I.D.: geowhiz.141 Posted: Sun Oct 14 04:03:51 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 02:00:13 EDT References: <228@boulder.UUCP> Organization: UW Madison, Geology Dept. Lines: 18 > 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. I second this one. Does anybody have a good reason why there is no single precision floating point in C. Along the same lines, it would be nice if C supported longer ints than 32 bits. Often we have to go to floating point representations with concomittant loss of accuracy in order to represent quantities that vary over a large range. Of course, I understand that the standards people have enough problems without having to extend the language at the same time. Bruce Karsh