Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

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On Sunday, 3 January 2021 at 22:50:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 January 2021 at 20:31:41 UTC, welkam wrote:
>> You should put yourself in the boots of Atila. If you accept a 
>> change that later turns out to be bad idea you cant just take 
>> it out.
>
> This is just silly. You don't have to accept a specific 
> solution...
>
> ...but...
>
> YOU DO HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE A TYPE SYSTEM BUG!
>
> If an indirection through an alias causes type unification to 
> fail then that is a serious type system failure. No excuses 
> please...
>
> "workarounds" are indeed just excuses, telling people 
> "workarounds" they already know about is borderline offensive. 
> I wouldn't call it mocking, but I certainly see why it can be 
> perceived as such.

I suppose the answer would be that D doesn't pretend to support 
all C++ template features and the bug is not a bug because we 
live with this somehow for years. I didn't believe it when I got 
a similar answer about IEEE floating-point numbers: D doesn't 
pertinent to be IEEE 754 compatible language and the extended 
precision bug is declared to be a language feature. I suppose we 
shouldn't expect D to pretend to be a robust language for large 
business projects.