Re: Decimal: Formal review begins.

From: Ruben Perez (rubenperez038_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-16 11:15:16

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 at 10:34, John Maddock via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> The review of the proposed Decimal Number library by Matt Borland and
> Chris Kormanyos begins today and runs until 22nd Jan.
>
> You will find documentation here:
> https://cppalliance.org/decimal/decimal.html
>
> And the code repository is here: https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal/
>
> Boost.Decimal is an implementation of IEEE 754
> <https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/754/6210/> and ISO/IEC DTR 24733
> <https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2009/n2849.pdf>
> Decimal Floating Point numbers. The library is header-only, has no
> dependencies, and requires C++14.

What is the status of the DTR? It looks to be dated from 2009. Is it
realistic to think it will get into std at some point?

Thanks,
Ruben.