"Alex Rønne Petersen" <xtzgzo...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:jg26nr$29bh$1...@digitalmars.com... > Hi, > > Are there any current plans to implement cent and ucent? I realize no > current processors support 128-bit integers natively, but I figure they > could be implemented the same way 64-bit integers are on 32-bit machines. > > I know I could use std.bigint, but there's no good way to declare a bigint > as fixed-size... > > -- > - Alex
There are no current plans that I'm aware of. Implementing cent/ucent would probably require adding support for the type to the backend, and there are a limited number of people that can do that. It's much more likely that phobos will get something like Fixed!128 in addition to BigInt.