Re: Decimal: Formal review begins.

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-16 14:30:53

Ruben Perez wrote:
> 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?

It's a real TR:

https://www.iso.org/standard/38843.html

The draft just doesn't cost CHF 199 to read.