Re: [boost] Decimal floating point library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-01 16:00:24

<klarer_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:du2c32$ejq$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Work is already underway in the C++ committee on the following Work Item:
>
> "JTC1.22.24733 - ISO/IEC TR 24733 - Information Technology - Programming
> Languages C++ - Technical Report of Type 2 on Extensions for the
> programming language C++ to support decimal floating point arithmetic"
>
> The latest draft of this document is not yet on the WG21 committee
> website, but I imagine that it will be very soon.  You can see an older
> draft there now:
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1839.html

The current mailing just became available. The latest version of the decimal 
arithmetic proposal is 
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1965.html

Stefan (or others), would you have any interest in implementing this 
proposal for Boost (under the Boost license)?

Although it would be a big job, the critical interface design and 
documentation work are essentially done in that you can just reference 
Robert's paper.

It would a useful library for Boost users, and any issues you ran into would 
illuminate areas of Robert's proposal that needs more work. The resulting 
improvements would be of long term benefit for C++.

--Beman