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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
