Unum II announcement

[Nick B via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:42:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 09:08:31PM +0000, Nick B via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:

> While I certainly hope this research would eventually 
> revolutionize numerical applications, it would take a long time 
> before it would catch on, and until then, I think it's better 
> to have unums available as a library rather than introducing it 
> into the language itself. Having it available via dub or 
> something like that would probably be a very good idea.

I totally agree.

> Thanks to operator overloading and alias this, we can probably 
> do a pretty good job implementing unums as a library so that 
> people can try it out.

It may be easier to link to the reference C implementation first.

I note that I haven't seen any feedback from Walter or Andrei. I 
can only assume that neither are interested in this subject.

Nick