Preston Briggs added the comment:
This all started with email to Guido that y'all didn't see,
wherein I wondered if Python was interested in such a thing.
Guido said: Sure, in principle, please see the discussion associated
with this change.
I probably don't have all the req
Preston Briggs added the comment:
>> It'd probably have to be touched up a bit.
> This may be an understatement. :-)
Probably so. Nevertheless, it's got to be easier
than approaching the problem from scratch.
And considering that this discussion has been
going on for
Preston Briggs added the comment:
In all this discussion, it seems that we have not discussed the
possibility of adapting David Gay's code, dtoa.c, which nicely handles
both halves of the problem. It's also free and has been well exercised
over the years.
It's avail
