When will you implement cent and ucent?

[max haughton]

On Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 22:43:27 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 22:35:46 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>> It's still quite ugly compared to just implementing cent 
>> properly e.g. lack of VRP and implicit conversions make the 
>> library approach a bit meh.
>
> There's another advantage (besides the main one - not having to 
> touch the frontend at all) - it's not restricted to 128 bits 
> and *could* thus be a template for integers with N bits. I 
> doubt VRP and implicit conversions are of high priority for the 
> presumably few specialized usages of huge integers.

The few times I have needed wide arithmetic in D, it not being 
available has been irritating, having it be available but as a 
weird library feature is just goading.

e.g. Being able to call 128bit functions with narrower types 
without having to inject Cent(xyz) everywhere is not a small 
thing.