Decimal string to floating point conversion with correct half-to-even rounding

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 12:33:40 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 12:14:16 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Likewise, you've made the std.experimental.allocator on DUB 
>> depends on mir-core...
>
> Is that not an example of how Steve thinks it should work? Both 
> are Boost licensed. mir-core has no external dependencies. Ilya 
> could split the parse/bignum packages to a separate repo with 
> no other dependencies and then public import them in 
> mir-algorithm and just normally import them elsewhere.
>
>> stdlib shouldn't depend on non-stdlib, there isn't anything to 
>> debate on this point.
>
> Walter's original comment was about adding it to DMD. He may 
> have intended Phobos, but I read it as DMD.

Eh, it looks like parse.d depends on std. So it wouldn't make 
sense to add to DMD since then the compiler would depend on the 
standard library.