From: miles@gnu.org
"James K. Lowden" writes:
> template
> class Range
...
> Note that T cannot be just any type. It can be integral or a pointer,
> but not e.g. float.
Hmm, I've always wondered: why do the C++ standards always so oddly
biased against scalar floating-point types, in that there are various
places like this where "int" is allowed but not "float" (the biggie, of
course, being static-const-data-member initialization in C++98)...?
It would surely be very convenient for the programmer if float/double
were allowed, it would make the language seem more consistent, and I
can't see that it would present any particular implementation
difficulties...
Thanks,
-Miles
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