Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[Walter Bright]

On 12/20/2020 9:42 PM, 9il wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 December 2020 at 22:21:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Can the improved parsing be added to D? (It would need to be Boost licensed.)
> If I am correct there is open PR that set DMD to use C’s primitives for literals 
> parsing. So, for compiler itself we don’t need Mir.

That's not correct for the targets that use Digital Mars C.


> If you mean Phobos - one can use Mir instead.

These functions in Phobos would make a great advertisement for Mir.