Proposal for a standard Decimal type in alpha

[Andre Pany]

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 08:32:03 UTC, Nathan S. wrote:
> I think it would be clearer if the precision, the rounding 
> mode, and the error behavior were three separate parameters 
> instead of a single Hook. Predefined settings named "Abort", 
> "Throw", and "NoOp" would then be self-explanatory, and it 
> wouldn't be necessary to entirely rewrite them if you wanted 
> precision of 10 or 20 decimal digits instead of 9 or wanted to 
> use a different rounding mode.

I agree. I worked with languages which have decimal type built 
into the language
   (DATA price TYPE p LENGTH 16 DECIMALS 2)
and having the possibility to set precision and scale directly 
without have to think about rounding options would be great.

Kind regards
Andre