Am 14.08.2015 um 07:11 schrieb Walter Bright:
On 8/12/2015 12:44 AM, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
That's where Decimal would come in. There is some code for that
commented out,
but I really didn't want to add it without a standard Phobos
implementation. But
I wouldn't say that this is really an argument against BigInt, maybe
more one
for implementing a Decimal type.
Make the type for storing a Number be a template parameter.
Then we'd lose the ability to distinguish between integers and floating
point in the same lexer instantiation, which is vital for certain input
files to avoid losing precision for 64-bit integers. The only solution
would be to use Decimal, but that doesn't exist yet and would be slow.
But the use of BigInt is already controlled by a template parameter,
only the std.bigint import is currently there unconditionally.
Hm, another idea would be to store a void* (to a BigInt) instead of a
BigInt and only import std.bigint locally in the accessor functions.
