Decimal Floating Point types.
Rob T
rob at ucora.com
Mon Oct 29 15:41:45 PDT 2012
On Monday, 29 October 2012 at 18:43:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Speaking on behalf of Dejan, he expressed a wish to have such a
> type in D. (eg: such that assert(3.6 * 10 == 36.0) - which may
> not always be true on all architectures).
>
>
> As maybe a new backend type is out of the question. Perhaps we
> should create a new library type for the job - eg: _Decimal32,
> _Decimal64, _Decimal128.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> Regards
> Iain.
I would definitely want these. They are necessary for doing math
on currency values.
--rt
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