proposal: spec: add decimal float types (IEEE 754-2008)

I know there was a proposal about decimal as an std package. But according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point, there have already been multiple compliant hardware implementations, and supported by several commonly used programming languages. I think having decimal as first-class citizen like the other part of the IEEE-754 standard makes sense. The upside is we don't have to spend the effort on API design upfront to make it useful like math.big. We can just limit the scope of the operations only within the Go's existing arithmetic operators. Designing a good numerical/arithmetic API beyond the conventional operators is harder and can be deferred later with no harm.

Posted by typeless on Mar 30, 2017, 3:04 PM

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