Is there an equivalent of the decimal type in D?
Joel C. Salomon
JoelCSalomon at Gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 16:25:20 PST 2007
Myron Alexander wrote:
> I want to work with numbers without having to worry about binary representation. I work with currencies and other such values that must be absolute. In Java I have BigDecimal and in Python I have decimal.
>
> Does D have an equivalent, either at the language level or as a module/class?
The ongoing revision to the IEEE 754 floating-point standard has support
for decimal; when 754r seems close to ratification would be a good time
to add it to D.
--Joel
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