On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:38:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:39:37AM +0000, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 05:49:53 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote:
> Echoing the need for decimal support. I won't use it myself,
> but I know it's critical for finance.
funny thing: those "financial sector" most of the time doesn't
give anything back. adding special decimal type complicating
the compiler and all backends. i myself never needed that for
my whole lifetime (and this is more than two decades of
programming, in various free and commercial projects).
[...]
A Decimal type isn't hard to implement as a user-defined type.
I don't understand the obsession with some people that
something must be a built-in type to be acceptable...
user-defined types were invented for a reason, and in D you
have the facilities of making user-defined types behave almost
like built-in types in a way no other language I know of can.
Same thing goes with a fixed point type. People keep
complaining about it, but honestly if I were in the finance
sector I'd implement the type myself in a couple o' days and
put it up on code.dlang.org or something. It's not *that* hard.
T
In my opinion passionate D developer will build the missing parts
themselves. I also developed my own decimal library. But the
developers starting with D and which rather want to build content
instead of the missing parts won't. Also there is a much higher
trust if a library is provided within phobos than provided from a
single person in terms of long time support.
Kind regards
Andre
