On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
This is something I would be willing to contribute but probably not until after the formal review.
If you feel like discussing the design, I am interested.
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:26 AM, John Maddock <boost.regex@virgin.net>wrote:
Also just realized that while a simple adapter backend:
template <class BigInteger> class exact_float;
Would be more or less trivial as far as the arithmetic goes, other stuff like string conversion would be *much* more complex, exactly which conversions and/or string formatting should be supported would require some careful thought.
Yes, agreed regarding the trickiness of string conversions :( I guess if one doesn't want or need to implement such facilities, one could just throw on such overloads.
Actually, one could see it as a weakness of the library that so many of the requirements are compulsory and not optional. -- Marc Glisse