Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 at 17:08:26 UTC, 9il wrote:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16486
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16465
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10884
> and the oldest one reported in 2008
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807
>
> C++ templates can be resolved, at least at the level Mir needs 
> this. So, it is a bug in my opinion. But it was said the DIP is 
> required. I can't write DIP well and was very happy that 
> Stefanos wrote the DIP and even the druft.

Yes, if something is perceived as bug it becomes a burden to 
remember that it is isn't. Not sure why anyone resist this 
improvement. Hm, he seems to be a compiler consultant now, but no 
longer interested in D?

Maybe the DIP should have pushed harder on what other languages 
support (might be viewed as a stronger political argument).

>> I see how builtin tuples could be useful for a linalg library. 
>> I like how Python allows just using ",". Makes code easier on 
>> the eyes
>>
>> x,y = y,x
>
> It is also very desired for lazy zipped tensors.

I don't use tensors much, how does it help zipping?

I sometimes wonder if linalg primitives should be builtin too. 
Seems like that could allow for better compiler optimization.