On Saturday, 8 August 2020 at 18:16:30 UTC, Avrina wrote:
On Friday, 7 August 2020 at 13:24:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/7/20 8:04 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 7/7/20 7:13 AM, 9il wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 07:49:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/5/2020 5:46 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On Sunday, 5 July 2020 at 11:07:55 UTC, 9il wrote:
FWIW it would be wisest to simply copy the code from Mir into
druntime now with due credit. It's a minimally committal
decision than can be easily revisited later. It is legal,
appropriate, and there's no shame to it any more than it is
for other projects to fork (parts of) dmd, druntime, or phobos.
What's the purpose of that? If someone needs Mir, they can just
add it as a dependency in dub. This will just be adding more
bloat to drubtime. The development surrounding D seems to have
a stigma of using external dependencies even when there is
significant benefit. I find it odd that you bring up that
there's no shame to copy and paste. It seems the only reason
there simply wouldn't be a link to a dependency is because of
stigma. There's no shame relying on another project and you
don't have to copy and paste it. Optlink, DMC, DMC's club, etc.
Its gotten better than it was, but there's no reason to even
use any of those anymore, supporting them is just a waste of
time. As would maintaining a copy pasta of Mir would be.
Per the original post in this thread, the current compiler
doesn't convert decimal floating point literals to binary form
correctly in all normal cases. Assuming people actually want to
be correct/consistent to the last bit wherever possible, that
should change.
Additionally, the default library conversions should match those
of the compiler. They should also be correct/consistent.
This could be accomplished by introducing Mir dependencies in a
few places but I think fully accredited copying is a better way
to go. There is more to maintain, true, but accurate conversion
is fundamental in nature. We're not talking about some high
level library here. Hard to get right? Apparently. Esoteric?
No.
As to timing, if the subnormal update Ilya mentioned is very
close it would make sense to wait for that version.
Side note: the truly persnickety/paranoid might favor hex
floating point literals but those are pretty hard on human
readers. At least the conversion implementations should not
require heroics.
