On Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 09:24:28 UTC, DLearner wrote:
A signed decimal datatype to support writing userland
accounting programs (major business application area), without
loss of accuracy (including losses caused by not all 'decimal
decimals' having exact 'binary decimal' representation).
Not very interesting from a theoretical viewpoint (just COBOL
or PL/I datatype),
but (I think) of practical value in encouraging D adoption.
D has excellent support for user-defined numerical data types, so
you can write such as a library. You too can do it, especially if
you have experience with such accounting applications.
