Re: [boost] Re: Fixed-Point Decimal Formal Review

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-19 10:09:49

At 10:00 PM 7/18/2003, Ilya Buchkin wrote:

 >"Bill Seymour" (Friday, 18 July, 2003 12:43) says:
 >
 >> Ilya seems to be giving me mutually contradictory requirements.
 >
 >I have use cases/request for TWO distinctly different needs
 >that I encountered in financial applications:
 >  1. storage (representation of financial data),

Internal or external? It can be an important distinction; the requirements 
are often so different that they have to be different types.

 >  2. calculations.

Are the requirements that different between an internal data storage type 
and a calculation type? That would be a shame.

--Beman