* This implementations string serialization for On Demand instances.
* Adding more documentation.
* Another remark.
* Marking the new functions as inline.
* casts apparently do not work.
* Upgrading the API.
* Making the code really free from exceptions.
* At another fix for exceptionless.
* Modify to_chars so that it does not pad integers with '.0'.
* Negative 0 cannot be expressed as an integer.
* Again, accomodating exceptionless usage.
* Using x <= -0 does not allow you to determine the sign since 0 <= -0. I am not sure where
this bug comes from.
Dirk Stolle