Re: [boost] Re: Any interest in a decimal and money class?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-12 00:50:23

Martin writes:
> I understand what you are saying but the comments in this thread
> (except the discussion Daniel and I have about money implementation)
> seem to be that there is no need for a decimal type in boost unless
> it is compatible with the upcoming standard. Since my solution (and
> your library roadmap) is fixed precision and the standard will be
> floating point (+fixed via encoding) it is not possible.  (And as I
> said in another post I don't actually see the need for decimal
> floating point. It solves a couple of theoretical cases where you
> can use == to compare values but are there any real applications for
> it?)

Why don't you take a look at the decimal library's formal review
posts? They discuss the issue in detail.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering