On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Miller <dmiller2...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Mono:
>>   - One BigDecimal implementation away from getting serious about
>> this.
>
>
> Why doesn't Mono have a BigDecimal analogue? It shouldn't, in principle, be
> difficult to create an open-source-friendly implementation backed by GMP.
>

The BigDecimal used by ClojureCLR is not a CLR data type, which I think is
why it doesn't exist on Mono already. Rather, it comes from Microsoft's J#
library, for which it's been stated there's "a massive lack of interest" on
Mono [1]. Prior discussion of the work involved to implement from scratch:
[2].

[1]
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/visualjsharpgeneral/thread/05ba5833-7049-475c-a13d-8dd2471962f6
[2]
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/f3a3cfca94debbac/4582ff46e136f3ef?q=bigdecimal+group:clojure+clojureclr#4582ff46e136f3ef

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