13 Dec
2004
13 Dec
'04
2:18 a.m.
At 04:48 PM 12/12/2004, Jeff Garland wrote:
Finally, it would be nice if someone would actually submit infinite precision number types
I agree strongly. It has always seemed to me to be a real hole in Boost not to have an infinite precision number type.
and resurrect the fixed decimal proposal (it died after it was rejected in review).
A decimal number proposal is starting to move through the C and C++ committees. It is based on work done at IBM, and is designed to work as either library software, or with a hardware accelerator, IIRC. Thus anyone interested might want to become familiar with that proposal before doing any new decimal work. --Beman