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

9il ilyayaroshenko at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 13:01:10 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 12:52:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> 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.

This would be good advertising for DFL, haha.


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