Floats

Overview

Floats in KSL are a blanket type. The “real” types of floats are f32 and f64. Techincally float is also an alias for f64. There is no f16 support because realistically, they won’t be used often enough to justify it. There are no special rules for interacting with floats. Their space in memory is equal to the type name, e.g. a f32 will be stored as a float 32 in memory during runtime, similarly a f64 will be stored as a float 64.

Casting Support

Types that can be cast to floats:

• Integer (via <value>'float)
• Bool (via <value>'float)

Types that floats can be cast to:

• Integer (via <value>'int)
• Bool (via <value>'bool)

Method Support

There are no methods supported for floats.

Examples

float x = 20.5;