Pondering. Computer Business. How serious this gets will be dependent on comments.

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 20:04:46 UTC, btiffin wrote:
> How would the D team feel if someone came by with a module for 
> base 10 decimal arithmetic?  Bankers like decimal math, and 
> still lean heavily on COBOL for counting up the fractional 
> pennies.

I am not on the D team, so I cannot speak for them. But you can 
share you modules using the package system Dub. I believe Intel 
has a base 10 C library you can bind to.

> How would the D team feel if someone pressed for EBCDIC 
> support?  Perhaps not internal, but as an option.

You can create your own fork and extend the lexer if you need to. 
Or just do it as a module.

> Would discussing Computer Business features be welcomed by team 
> D, ignored, or actively railed against as an unwanted 
> distraction?  If the answer is welcomed (or ignored) I might 
> take a stab at writing some code.  If it'd be an unwelcome 
> distraction at this point in time, then it would be best to 
> just let the beast lie.

No idea, but I dont think you need language support as D has good 
enough meta programming capabilities for you to do what you want 
as a library.

> can anyone see D with Business saddles?

No idea, are they interested in something that does not have IBM 
approval?