[cfp-interest 3833] floating result - 7.12.1#5 and 7.12.2#6 - Low priority

Damian McGuckin damianm at esi.com.au
Thu Mar 26 21:59:16 PDT 2026


The 5 occurrences in these 2 places should be called

 	floating-point result

which also appears in the standard for the same concept elsewhere.

You also see

 	floating values - 4 times
and
 	floating-point values - 4 times

which are the same thing. I prefer the latter.

Apart from the occurrence of "floating-point", the majority of ~650 times 
the adjective floating occurs followed by a space is for either a

 	floating literal
or
 	floating type

Thanks - Damian


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