On 2013-18-31 11:01, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
std.numeric is not superficially flawed, it's fundamentally flawed. What is it for? What is its theme? The problem is, std.numeric is one of the few good names which are left as a possible package name, after C insulted the mathematical community by creating a module called 'math'.
Ah. Now that makes sense. Suppose we do scrap std.numeric as it is, and find new homes for the contents that can be salvaged (I sorta like 1100110's suggestion of std.type.halffloat, std.type.bigint, etc). What would you want in a refurbished std.numeric? -- Simen
