Re: [boost] Interest in an arbitrary precision library?

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-08 13:27:21

"Rob Stewart" <stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:200509081609.j88G9D60027298_at_shannonhoon.balstatdev.susq.com...
> From: Joel Eidsath <jeidsath_at_[hidden]>
>> 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