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    go spec: remove float, complex in favor of float64 and complex128 · b94c0d2a
    Robert Griesemer authored
    The default float type is not very useful but for the most basic applications.
    For instance, as it is now, using the math package requires conversions for float
    variables (the arguments for math functions are usually float64). Typical real
    applications tend to specify the floating point precision required.
    
    This proposal removes the predeclared types float and complex. Variable declarations
    without type specification but with constant floating point or complex initializer
    expressions will assume the type float64 or complex128 respectively.
    
    The predeclared function cmplx is renamed to complex.
    
    R=golang-dev, rsc
    CC=golang-dev
    https://golang.org/cl/3423041
    b94c0d2a
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