Type

Summary

A subtype of float .

Package

common-lisp

Signature

double-float

Description

double-float is disjoint from short-float and single-float in all LispWorks implementations in version 5.0 and later.

Compatibility Note

In LispWorks 4.4 and previous on Windows and Linux platforms, all floats are of type double-float . However, there are distinct specialized array types (array single-float) , with single precision, and (array double-float) , with double precision.

See also

long-float
parse-float
short-float
single-float