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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C suggestions
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Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 04:03:51 EDT
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> 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