On Saturday, 9 June 2012 at 01:11:49 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
Including it in D seems very unlikely.
Including it in Phobos, OTOH, is another matter.
My bad phrasing. Of course in Phobos.
On 09/06/12 08:25, SomeDude wrote:
I've never had any use for rational numbers as have 99% of developers I believe.
Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I see only two possible usages of them:
math packages and length quotations in the english system. Because of this, I'd
rather see them in Deimos than in Phobos.
In fact the application I had in mind was for music software, where you want to
be able to store pitch changes in fractions of a whole tone. In that context
it's important that adding up those changes be guaranteed to produce exact results.
e.g. if you take middle C and raise it by 1 whole tone _exactly_ you arrive at
the note D. If you raise it by 0.99999999999999999999999999995 instead, how
does your software reliably handle this?
