Rationals Lib?

[language_fan]

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:29:41 +0000, dsimcha thusly wrote:

> I guess I could have implemented some of these suggestions, but the idea
> was for this lib to be very simple (it's only about 300 lines of code so
> far) and agnostic to the implementation of the integers it's working on
> top of, with the caveat that, if you use something that's not arbitrary
> precision, the onus is on you to make sure nothing overflows.  If
> anyone, for example, made a wrapper to the GNU multiprecision lib that
> looked like a D struct w/ operator overloading, it would be able to plug
> right into this library.  If std.bigint improves, this library will
> automatically benefit.

Now that's the most perfect way to test the modularity of the language -- 
does it allow implementing a rational library on top of any (arbitrary 
precision) number type, assuming we have a sane interface to work with.