Proposal for Decimal64 and Decimal128 value-based classes

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Wed Mar 31 08:51:29 UTC 2021


On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 22:02, Maurizio Cimadamore
<maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> There are also other interesting types to be explored in that domain,
> such as Long128, LongDouble (extended precision float) and HalfFloats.

Perhaps it would be beneficial to have a GitHub repo where designs for
these could be fleshed out. Kind of like a JSR would do. (For example,
Valhalla and OopenJDK will need to agree on naming conventions for the
various methods - for example I prefer plus() but others prefer add().
Stephen


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