June 30, 2006
3:16 p.m.
Before 1.0, it seems right to go with the best design and take some short-run grief for it if necessary.
If the right default is float, but extant code will be hurt, then let float be the default and put the legacy-code fix (function redefinition) in the compatability module
+1 on this very idea. (sorry for sending this directly to you @ first, Alan)