On Dec 19, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: >I was talking to Leo in the IRC room and he told me post onto the >list about proposing to change all floats to nums. Code such as >`.local float i` would instead be written as `.local num i`, but as >I gather it, current behavior would remain the same, or at least >general behavior.
How does the Pugs number hierarchy work? Specifically, I'm uncomfortable with this idea because floating point is just one way of representing numbers. Integers being another way. And it feels wrong to call one particular representation "num(ber)". It's going to cause confusion - there will be numbers and nums. [I guess we just need to get the ISO C people to s/float/single/g and then "float" won't be overloaded to mean a particular representation size.] Nicholas Clark
