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

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 07:49:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Businesses will not want to commit to a balkanized project.

It's been ages since I worked on a software project for a 
business that didn't have many random third (and fourth and fifth 
and sixth and seventh.....) party dependencies. Trying to remove 
or avoid them would universally encounter pushback from 
management. "Don't reinvent the wheel" they say.

It is really absurd.


But anyway this whole debate is moot because if you like the 
code, you can simply copy/paste it (with attribution as required 
by Boost copyright of course) into your own files. You keep full 
control and get all the benefits of using it.