Unum II announcement

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 at 03:44:48 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:42:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 09:08:31PM +0000, Nick B via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
>> While I certainly hope this research would eventually 
>> revolutionize numerical applications, it would take a long 
>> time before it would catch on, and until then, I think it's 
>> better to have unums available as a library rather than 
>> introducing it into the language itself. Having it available 
>> via dub or something like that would probably be a very good 
>> idea.
>
> I totally agree.
>
>> Thanks to operator overloading and alias this, we can probably 
>> do a pretty good job implementing unums as a library so that 
>> people can try it out.
>
> It may be easier to link to the reference C implementation 
> first.
>
> I note that I haven't seen any feedback from Walter or Andrei. 
> I can only assume that neither are interested in this subject.
>
> Nick

FWIW I skimmed through the paper and it looks very interesting 
and I would definitely experiment with it if it's available in 
D(ub).

If you want Andrei or Walter's opinion on whether they could in 
principle imagine Unum as part of Phobos or even the language, 
you should ping them directly via mail.