To avoid name conflict problems, like I've been concerned about elsewhere? ☺
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2015, at 8:40 AM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 8:16:57 AM UTC-4, Scott Jones wrote: >> Another thought... would it be possible to get DecimalFloatingPoint, and >> maybe the 3 types Dec32, Dec64, and Dec128 moved to Base? >> Not the implementation, but rather just the types, which would be the same >> no matter what Decimal floating point package you use... > > If another package is created using decNumber, for example, it can simply use > the same type names as DecFP for the same binary formats. I don't see any > advantage to putting the type names into Base.
