Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 at 18:05:40 UTC, 9il wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 at 17:22:28 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 at 17:08:26 UTC, 9il wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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?
>
> Hi is disappeared from the Dlang after that.
>
>> Maybe the DIP should have pushed harder on what other 
>> languages support (might be viewed as a stronger political 
>> argument).
>
> Have you read the DMD PR  thread (not the DIP itself)?
>
> It was a mockery executed by Atila accompanied by silent 
> Walter's and Andrei's ignoring.
>
> I know Atila in person. However, it doesn't really matter if 
> Atila really didn't understand the DIP reasons or it was a real 
> mockery. The fact that this behavior including real or seeming 
> mockery and real ignoring is a red flag for any professional 
> cooperation.
>
> Atila had been already declared as "new Andrei".
>
> Which was noted right in the DIP to define Atila's privileges 
> to make decisions.
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9778#issuecomment-498700369
>
>>> [...]
>>
>> 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.

Franky speaking, I don't see any mockery, but I'm not a native 
English speaker,  so I could have missed it.

Said that, if you really see value in the DIP, can I suggest to 
keep explaining your reason? I'm totally sure everybody here is 
engaged in discussion with the goal to understand. ...

my 2c