[texhax] why not floating-point?

[Alexandru Scorpan]

What about adding floating-point arithmetic support to TeX?

Motivation:  I understand that the main obstacle to implementing truly 
powerful graphic routines directly via TeX is that TeX cannot handle 
floating-point arithmetics.  While various external tricks are 
wonderful, they seem a bit unstable (eg the beauty of PostScripting via 
packages like eepic, that suddenly becomes unavailable when switching 
to pdfTeX).

Alex