On Saturday, 31 October 2015 at 18:23:43 UTC, rumbu wrote:
My opinion is that a decimal data type must be builtin in any modern language, not implemented as a library.
"must be builtin in any modern language" – which modern languages actually have decimals as a built-in type, and what is your rationale against having them as a solid library implementation? It seems like it would only be interesting for a very fringe sector of users (finance, and only the part of it that actually deals with accounting).
— David
