Re: is order urgent doubt

Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

By concentrating too closely on the "set" notion you may have
been misled into thinking that `double double trouble;' is
a legitimate declaration of what's normally called a `double',
but it's not.

In fact, there are compilers that implement a double double type as an
extension. (As the name implies, it's a floating point type consisting
of a pair of doubles, which allows some strange and wonderful split-
precision operations.)

-- Larry Jones

I don't think that question was very hypothetical at all. -- Calvin
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