Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
As Amaury explains, it's called float because it *is* a floating point
type.
It is not a double type, as it is not two types, but only a single one
:-) In 2.x, the "int" type was also represented with a C long, yet the
type called "long" was not represented w
Eric Smith added the comment:
-1
The time to change this was 3.0, if it was ever needed. It would break
too much code now. We could develop some strategy using macros, but I
just don't think it's worth it.
And as Amaury points it, the type is known in python as "float", so to
change it would b
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment:
'float' is how python names its floating point number type, and this
won't change. Yes, it is based on the C double, but I think that the
code is very careful to avoid the confusion.
For example, in the C sources, the word 'float' always has a 'Py'
prefi
New submission from Jack Diederich :
The core types use doubles, not floats. The file and function names
should reflect that (the docs already do).
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title: Rename float*.[ch] to double.[ch]
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