Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 4 January 2021 at 17:48:50 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> I think you're hitting the nail on the head here regarding the 
> confusion. Such a rewrite makes intuitive sense, and it would 
> be nice, but it doesn't happen.

So, does that mean that you agree that having better unification 
would be a worthwhile item to have on a wish list for 2021? So, 
if somebody want to do a full implementation that performs well, 
then it would be an interesting option?


Quite frankly, it is much better to just say "oh, this is a 
deficiency in the implementation" than to say that the language 
spec is fubar...

Also, the whole idea of writing the language spec to match the 
implementation is not a good approach.

I think D could become competitive if the existing feature set is 
streamlined and polished.