Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[9il]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 04:33:55 UTC, 9il wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 02:02:24 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I thought that DMD is compiled with LDC for release builds, 
> isn't it?
>
>>> If you mean Phobos - one can use Mir instead.
>>
>> These functions in Phobos would make a great advertisement for 
>> Mir.
>
> How this possible? Having them in Mir is already a great 
> advertisement for Mir and not having them in Phobos is an even 
> more great advertisement for Mir.

... I just have thought maybe I have missed something and DLF 
helps Mir with advertising at least a bit, maybe at least with 
two-three tweets per year? The last time @D_Programming tweeted 
something about Mir was in 2016.