On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 23:07:46 UTC, rumbu wrote:
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 20:55:33 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote:
My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any
modern language, not implemented as a library.
"must be builtin in any modern language" – which modern
languages actually have decimals as a built-in type, and what
is your rationale against having them as a solid library
implementation? It seems like it would only be interesting for
a very fringe sector of users (finance, and only the part of
it that actually deals with accounting).
— David
GNU C - 3 built-in decimal data types -
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Decimal-Float.html
This is a vendor-specific extension and likely exposed by GDC
already.
