Re: Decimal: Formal review begins.

From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-16 00:41:48

On Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 at 7:15 PM, Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On 1/15/25 12:33, John Maddock via Boost wrote:
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> > The review of the proposed Decimal Number library by Matt Borland and
> > Chris Kormanyos begins today and runs until 22nd Jan.
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> A quick question. Why are the UDLs not in a dedicated nested namespace,
> e.g. boost::decimal::literals? This is a very useful convention
> established by the standard library that allows to not import the entire
> library namespace into the user's scope but only enable the literals.
> 

There's compelling reason. I can change it to match the STL since that is established practice.

Matt