🚀 go-pugleaf

From article <dillon.4040@overload.UUCP>, by dillon@overload.UUCP (Matthew Dillon):
[...]
>     As I say in the documentation, this is the first major release of DICE
>     and it does not support everything yet... floating point and bit
						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     fields, for example, have not been implemented.   On the otherhand,
>     it's nearly 100% ANSI and all of DICE compiles itself (as well as DME,
>     all of the UUCP1.06 distribution now, and everything else I'm doing).
>     I.E., it is a real compiler that generates real code.
[...]

When you get around to that, see if you can leave some expansion hooks
in for complex arithmetic!  You'd be the first C compiler on the block
with that and have science and engineering types rushing to your
door :-).
Oh yeah, and a nice way of rounding float to int - I had to roll a
kludge yesterday for it :-
#define round(x) ((x)<0.0?(x)-0.0001:(x)+0.0001)

I'm not about to start religious wars here, it's just that I wonder why
the ANSI mob didn't provide for the capability to extend the type range
of the basic arithmetic operators.

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