Rationals Lib?

[language_fan]

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:25:28 -0400, bearophile thusly wrote:

> dsimcha:
> 
>>     auto f1 = fraction( BigInt("314159265"), BigInt("27182818"));
> 
> That's a nice example where bigint literals are useful.
> 
> Missing bigint literals, this looks shorter than your way to define f1:
> auto f1 = fraction("314159265 / 27182818"); Or a little better, if/when
> structs can be assigned statically: fraction f1 = q{314159265 /
> 27182818};

FWIW, he could have just redefined the / operator in class bigint:

  bigint(1) / 3

Or

  bigint f;
  f = 1
  f /= 3;

Can't really remember how overloading the assignment works in D.