Re: [boost] Re: Any interest in a decimal and money class?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-08 22:43:26

At 03:43 PM 1/8/2005, Martin wrote:

 >> With the C and C++ committee's working on a decimal arithmetic 
technical
 >> report, have you considered how your library will support future 
decimal
 >> types that come out of that effort?
 >
 >Depends on what you mean. My decimal type will probably be obsolete when
 >these new types arrive but the money type shold be able to use them with
 >a wrapper for construction and extraction.

What I had in mind was something along the lines of Daniel Frey's 
basic_decimal<T> suggestion that might be able to adapt to future T decimal 
types. Just a thought.

 >Also, I have tried to look at the committe's work but don't really
 >understand how rounding will work with these new types.

IIUC, details will be based on the new IEEE 754R standard, so you might 
want to look at that.

--Beman