Re: Scheduled review of Decimal library

From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-10-08 12:01:55

> When this library was first revealed, I had expressed concerns about the very beginning of the documentation, the Motivation and Use Cases sections. Matt seemed to agree in part, but I see that not much has been changed there.
> 

Do you have specific suggestions? I reworded and expanded the since you raised concerns last time.

> My suggestion to add some authoritative references was adopted, thats nice.
> A function for rounding to a given number of decimal figures (i.e. cents/satoshis) is still absent.

It was added a bit back after your request. See: https://cppalliance.org/decimal/decimal.html#cmath_trunc_to. 

> The other thing still missing is usage examples in the domain where this library is actually meant
> to be useful, financial calculations, and calculator/spreadsheets software. I am writing this in the hope that documentation will be improved even before the review starts.
> 

Yes, we will continue to beef up the examples section in the coming weeks.

Matt