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> While f might be a nicer suffice than f32, no suffix is even better.

Well, isn't float in C and C++ platform dependent, and just usually 4 bytes on common platforms? I like the idea of being explicit in the storage type, even if it's slightly more verbose.

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No. ISO C has standardized "float" to 32 bits and "double" to 64 bits. The one that's platform-dependent is "long double".

And, oxymoronically, plain, old long.

In particular, everything but MSVC treats long as 64 bits, but MSVC treats it as 32 bits for backwards compatibility.

However, I haven't used int or long or long long in ten years or so. Thanks to stdint.h support finally making its way to all platforms, it's exclusively sized types like int32_t and uint16_t for me.

I might otherwise agree with you, but I find it hard to read when extra numbers are interspersed with the numbers that actually part of the calculation. I feel the readability matters more than the explicitness.

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