Re: Floating point

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Thanks Jose.  That's about what I figured based on a few searches.  I
> actually started with writing a pickle for it...and decided I ought to look
> up the simplest floating point printer.  I stopped when I hit the dragonbox
> algorithm and realized it's a bigger project than I'm willing to commit to
> currently.
>
> Taking a different approach...is there any plan to implement an interface
> for interoperability with external applications?  The idea being I could
> export the printf to some other application.

An FFI is in progress.

But if this is such a concern/inconvenience for users like you we can
reconsider adding native types for FP to poke.  We learn every day from
use-cases reported from users, and Poke is by no means written in stone
:)