Rational numbers in D

[Stewart Gordon]

On 07/06/2012 18:49, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Sorry for the double-post -- I already asked this in d-learn, but this may be a better
> place to ask.
>
> What's the current state of affairs and roadmap for inclusion of rational number support
> in D?

Including it in D seems very unlikely.

Including it in Phobos, OTOH, is another matter.

> I've come across David Simcha's work:
> http://cis.jhu.edu/~dsimcha/d/phobos/std_rational.html
>
> ... and a feature request on the bugzilla:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7885
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Well, do these work at the moment?

If so, I suggest you use one of them for now.  If you're mainly just doing simple 
arithmetic with them, it probably wouldn't be too much work to convert your code to use 
the Phobos rational type when/if it gets one.

Stewart.