Martin writes:
I understand what you are saying but the comments in this thread (except the discussion Daniel and I have about money implementation) seem to be that there is no need for a decimal type in boost unless it is compatible with the upcoming standard. Since my solution (and your library roadmap) is fixed precision and the standard will be floating point (+fixed via encoding) it is not possible. (And as I said in another post I don't actually see the need for decimal floating point. It solves a couple of theoretical cases where you can use == to compare values but are there any real applications for it?)
Why don't you take a look at the decimal library's formal review posts? They discuss the issue in detail. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering