Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[9il]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 09:18:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/21/2020 8:33 PM, 9il wrote:
>>> These functions in Phobos would make a great advertisement 
>>> for Mir.
>> How this possible?
>
> A lot more people will have Phobos than Phobos+Mir. If they are 
> perusing the source code and see Mir contributed excellent 
> floating point formatting code, they may have never heard of 
> Mir but have now.

"If, If Is Good" (Disney Company). From the marketing point of 
view, this doesn't make real sense.

> Then they'll be likely to be positively disposed towards using 
> Mir because of the high quality code.

Mir doesn't need a Phobos conformity mark. In many designs and 
implementation questions, Phobos is far behind Mir. The reality 
is that Phobos asks for 6K+ LOC Mir's code, while Phobos legacy 
in Mir's codebase is less than a quite well reworked few 
percentages.

> It's the same idea as HBO offering the first episode for free 
> in a miniseries. People watch the first episode, like it, and 
> then subscribe to HBO.

I don't take payments from people to use Mir. They don't need to 
dig in Phobos source code to find it. Likely they will search 
GitHub or code.dlang.org to find a solution they need.

>> Having them in Mir is already a great advertisement for Mir
>
> Since they exist in the C standard library (except for DMC :-( 
> ) they by themselves aren't a compelling reason for someone to 
> use Mir.

They are, Mir comes with a CTFE/@nogc/nothrow formatting API and 
these functions are play well inside.