Decimal string to floating point conversion with correct half-to-even rounding

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On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 12:35:57 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 12:33:40 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 12:14:16 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Is that not an example of how Steve thinks it should work? 
>> Both are Boost licensed. mir-core has no external 
>> dependencies. Ilya could split the parse/bignum packages to a 
>> separate repo with no other dependencies and then public 
>> import them in mir-algorithm and just normally import them 
>> elsewhere.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Walter's original comment was about adding it to DMD. He may 
>> have intended Phobos, but I read it as DMD.
>
> Eh, it looks like parse.d depends on std. So it wouldn't make 
> sense to add to DMD since then the compiler would depend on the 
> standard library.

All std.* dependencies in Mir are minor and can be replaced in a 
day.