Why doesn’t Float alias to the machine bit size like Int? julia> Int Int64 julia> Float ERROR: UndefVarError: Float not defined

[image] `Float` type like `Int` type General Usage I find myself always writing a type alias for floating points in order to make my package neutral to machine word size: typealias Float Float64 Why there is no definition like Int that becomes Int64 or Int32 depending on…

Why no Float type alias?

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oheil September 28, 2022, 7:58pm 8

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Why no Float type alias?

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