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

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 15:08:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 13:00:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>> Doing that these days would be silly. You can depend on a 
>> specific version of a repository without problems.
>
> I always have problems when trying to do that. git submodules 
> bring pretty consistent pain in my experience.
>
> But it probably isn't so bad if the submodule rarely changes.
>
> Just for 100% control anyway nothing beats copy/paste. Then 
> there's zero difference between you writing it yourself.
>
> I kinda wish the D upstream were more willing to do that. My 
> view is it shouldn't be on independent developers to add stuff 
> to Phobos, for example, instead the Phobos team should just be 
> copying and testing modules they are interested in on their own.

git subtree

it's like submodules but also like copy-paste.