ow Integers Should Work

[Walter Bright]

On 12/5/2011 10:52 PM, Don wrote:
> On 06.12.2011 05:15, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/5/2011 8:10 PM, bearophile wrote:
>>> This is not about integers but yeah, I'd like the better str<-> float
>>> conversions of Python in D too.
>>
>> Do you have any test data that they actually are better in Python (apart
>> from just being better specified)?
>
> Bug 5229 is an example.
>
> I have five papers on this topic. Most recent is the excellent:
> Florian Loitsch, "Printing FP numbers quickly and accurately with integers" (2010)

Right now, we rely on C's standard library. Often, it's deficient. We should 
roll our own, like we did with the math routines, and make sure the D standard 
reflects the modern thinking on it.

(Python's implementation currently uses David Gay's dtoa.c)