"Rob Stewart" <stewart@sig.com> wrote in message news:200509081609.j88G9D60027298@shannonhoon.balstatdev.susq.com...
From: Joel Eidsath <jeidsath@gmail.com>
Andy Little wrote:
How about APF standing for abitrary precision float?
Sounds pretty good. I'll either use that or "abfloat" to go along with integer.
I hope you meant "apfloat" at least. Nevertheless, such an abbreviation is not Boost style, so I'd suggest "arbitrary_precision_float." Users can always typedef it to something shorter.
(The downside is that you can get very long error messages. 'typedefs' dont help this). The library will need its own namespace anyway. Why not ( in boost namespace) apm::float_<> ; apm::int_<>; where apm stands for arbitrary-precision math. regards Andy Little