> On 28 May 2017, at 11:49, Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've a question about naming a specific class. It is about the type > Decimal128 which I need in BSON. For the moment I want it to hold a number > and in BSON to encode and decode it to a byte stream. Later I can add > specific operations and other known decimal types. I am thinking of the > following names; > > Math::Decimal::D128 > Math::Decimal::D64 > Math::Decimal::D32 > > For the 128, 64 and 32 bit decimal types. Or should I drop the Math:: part. > > The other question I have is the following; I know about the _Decimal128 type > in C (gcc). Is it also a standard type in C on windows and mac? In that case > I could try to go native.
Apart from the naming, isn’t Decimal64 the same as “num64” in Rakudo? And Decimal32 the same as “num32” ? If so, I think there’s already an outstanding RT for not supporting “num128” in Rakudo. Perhaps it would be better to focus on supporting this in MoarVM directly? Liz
