Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

[Andre Pany]

On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 13:59:28 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
wrote:
> A couple of months ago, Andrei noted that a donor asked for a 
> precise decimal type for D specifically: 
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/osnema$d5s$1@digitalmars.com. I've 
> also heard this asked for many times, so I decided to start 
> work on a library for eventual proposal to Phobos.
>
> I just finished getting the type into an alpha version, and I 
> wanted to solicit people's opinions on the API and if I'm 
> heading in the right direction with this.
>
> The dub page: https://code.dlang.org/packages/stdxdecimal
>
> The docs: https://jackstouffer.github.io/stdxdecimal/
>
> What you can do so far:
>
> * Control behavior with a Hook type a-la 
> std.experimental.checkedint
> * Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
> * Construction from a strings and built-in number types
>
> For the full list of planned features, see: 
> https://github.com/JackStouffer/stdxdecimal
>
> Please let me know what you think!

That are fantastic news. Thanks for working on this topic.
Is it possible to define a decimal type with a defined scale and 
precision?
 From the examples and the documentation I am not sure whether it 
is possible.

Kind regards
Andre