Why was the proposal for decimal floating point arithmetic not accepted in C ++ 0x?

Question

Why wasn’t the decimal type adopted in C ++ 0x (now C ++ 11) either a full-fledged type or a class?

They worked on it from 2005 after quite sharp criticism in 2004 , and the last article for him was 2009 and looked through it, it seems quite complete . Were the problems raised in 2004 a reason to abandon it, despite most of the problems resolved?

In boost (although there is a discussion on the mailing list earlier this year).

Answer 1

C ++ 11 rushed very quickly. They really could not get around, including all the old things that came. In 2009, it became obvious that it would be rather late, and they simply did not consider it. However, N3407 points to a proposal to accept it (hopefully) C ++ 17.