should fixedpoint be in phobos? project registry ?
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 4 09:11:00 PST 2015
On 11/4/2015 7:35 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 12:30:24 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> Point came up in a discussion in the learn group that fixedpoint arithmetic
>> would be quite useful, especially in the financial domain. There does exist a
>> github library for this - it looked reasonably thought-through, but I haven't
>> used it as when I tried it didn't compile with the version of dmd I was using.
>
> I agree a fixed point decimal type would be epic in D. There is one bit-rotting
> on the formal review queue as we speak:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Review_Queue
And there's the sad tale of halffloat:
https://www.digitalmars.com/sargon/halffloat.html
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