I've cleaned up/fixed the bit rot in my Rational library. It's
available for review at:
http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/rational/rational.d?rev=785
.
Known issues:
1. Due to bugs in BigInt (mainly 4742
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4742), BigInt
instantiations don't play nicely with builtin integer instantiations.
For example, this doesn't work:
auto a = rational(BigInt(1), 2) * rational(8, 7);
2. I couldn't figure out how to handle the case of user-defined
fixed-width integer types in the decimal conversion (opCast) function,
so it just assumes non-builtin integer types are arbitrary precision.
The biggest problem is lack of a way of introspecting whether the
integer is fixed or arbitrary width and what its fixed width might be if
it is, in fact, fixed. The secondary problem is that I don't know of a
good algorithm (though I'm sure I could find one if I tried) for
converting fixed-width integers to floating point numbers in software.
Arbitrary precision is much easier.
3. There is a small amount of special case ad-hockery to make things
work with std.bigint.BigInt. I consider these bug workarounds. In
principle, everything should work with any user defined arbitrary
precision integer if it overloads everything it's supposed to overload.
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