[boost] Re: Re: Re: TR2 and C++0x heads up

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-25 20:16:41

"Bronek Kozicki" <brok_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:426BF209.6010804_at_rubikon.pl...
> Jeff Garland wrote:
>> application development langauage. And actually I thought Beman had 
>> indicated
>> earlier that there is a proposal for some new numeric types based on IEEE 
>> work?
>
> I think that you mean decimal floating point types; these are going 
> forward, so far.

There's a small champaign to get people to refer to this proposal as 
"decimal types", since they include decimal floating point, fixed point, and 
integers. People sometimes fixate on the floating point aspects, but the 
others are important too.

--Beman