Rational numbers in D

[dsimcha]

A long time ago, this was discussed on this forum.  I wrote the current 
candidate for std.rational, and there was talk of Don Clugston 
integrating the GCD function into std.bigint to take advantage of 
knowing BigInt's internals.  According to Don, using a general algorithm 
here results in terrible performance.  As of now, that hasn't happened, 
though.

On 6/7/2012 1:49 PM, 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?  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
>
> .... but this isn't mentioned at all in the review queue:
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?ReviewQueue
>
> What's the status of work/planning for this feature and is there any
> kind of ETA for when it might land in Phobos?
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
>      -- Joe