Another take on decimal data types

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 18:15:23 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> [snip]
> BUT - a very big but - the most important issue is the 
> formatting thing. Even there is no direct dependency on 
> std.format or std.stdio, the formatting mechanism is designed 
> to fit nicely into phobos formatting paradigm. That means that 
> there is no way to output decimal values on the console without 
> phobos. I confess that 30% of my development time was the 
> formatting feature: displaying correctly any possible 
> combination of width, padding, alignment in 4 different formats 
> (%f, %g, %e, %a) was really a challenge and despite of hundreds 
> of unit tests, I'm not convinced today that I covered all the 
> corner cases. The f*cking %g took me 3 days to find out exactly 
> what is meant to do. More than that, each compiler producer 
> have a different idea about format specifiers. Linking your 
> application against snn, msvcrt or glibc will render completely 
> different results for printf("%g", ...). On top of that, 
> neither the FormatSpec documentation from phobos is something 
> complete and clear...
>

Ilya has expressed interest in a betterC formatting library for 
libmir.