On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:41:45PM +0100, Rob T wrote: > On Monday, 29 October 2012 at 18:43:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >Speaking on behalf of Dejan, he expressed a wish to have such a > >type in D. (eg: such that assert(3.6 * 10 == 36.0) - which may not > >always be true on all architectures). > > > > > >As maybe a new backend type is out of the question. Perhaps we > >should create a new library type for the job - eg: _Decimal32, > >_Decimal64, _Decimal128. > > > >Thoughts? > > > > > >Regards > >Iain. > > I would definitely want these. They are necessary for doing math on > currency values. [...]
I thought it was better to use fixed-point with currency? Or at least, so I've heard. T -- Mediocrity has been pushed to extremes.