On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 05:38:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
A Decimal type isn't hard to implement as a user-defined type. I don't understand the obsession with some people that something must be a built-in type to be acceptable...
As I see it, any kind of an implementation that's comparable to what's out there is acceptable, be it a standard libary or user library, as long as it's visible and people can easily find it.
For example in C++ land: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floating-point-math-library/
Which makes a point of stating it conforms to standards and is usable in cases where decimal is legally required.
And in C# land: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.decimal(v=vs.110).aspx
System.Decimal and the basic decimal type being a part of the .NET runtime/C# language.
Both are highly visible from Google searches.
