Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Monday, 4 January 2021 at 04:37:22 UTC, 9il wrote:
> 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.

But it is a bug even if there was no C++... An alias should work 
by simple substitution, if it does not, then it is no alias...

> 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.

I think this is up to the compiler?