Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost ExtendedFloating-Point

Subject: Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost ExtendedFloating-Point
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-31 04:20:20

> Some very helpful boosters are assisting me with the preparation of this 
> potential library.
> We've still got a lot to do, but are making good progress.
>
> In order to continue, we need a good name for a potential boost 
> multiple-precision floating-point type.
>
> For the multiple-precision real type we have names like:
>
> * multiprecision_real
> * mp_real
> * extended_float_tOur current favorite is the second:mp_real.
>
> For namespaces, we have:
>
> 1. boost::mp::mp_real
> 2. boost::multiprecision::mp_real
> 3. boost::multiple_precision::mp_realOur current favorite namespace is 
> number 2: boost::multiprecision.
>
> This new data type behaves like a drop-in replacement for a POD.
> It also has a collection of transcendental functions and a complex data 
> type.
>

>I guess you know the BigNumber proposal from John Maddock. While this 
>library provides some wrappers to 3rd party libraries, nothing forbid to 
>include an arbitrary precision real and an integer with arbitrary digits. 
>So, if John accepts, the namespace could be big_number. The classes could 
>just be named real, integer, ...

Chris and I are working on parallel, but hopefully converging courses (is 
that a contradiction in terms??), BTW the stuff I'm working on is an 
expression template enabled front end to arithmetic types: that may just so 
happen to include a "big int" but it's not the main/only focus.

John.