Boost.Decimal Has Been Accepted
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First off a big thanks to all the folks who participated in the review process, and of course to Matt and Chris for submitting the library. Then the headline news: with 8 favorable reviews, and two equivocal ones, Boost.Decimal is ACCEPTED into Boost. There were two main contentious issues: 1) Cohort support: several reviewers asked for cohort support and one thought that printing the actual cohort should be the default. I know that Matt has been working on support for cohort IO, on the basis that the notion of cohorts take some getting used to, and that libraries should generally make the easy stuff easy, I’ happy for this to NOT be the default. 2) Binary-decimal conversion. This was discussed in some depth during the review, so I won’t try to repeat here. Matt has agreed to docu…

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