Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > A decimal would do as well, I suppose, at least in > > terms of storing the raw value. The reason for trying > > to come up with a monetary type is to make operations between > > monetary values having two different currencies illegal. > > Coercion between two of those would always have to be > > made explicit (for obvious reasons). > > Are you sure you're trying to solve a real problem here? There are > lots of operations on monetary values that make no sense (try > multiplying two amounts of money). Indeed, monetary types solve different problems than decimal types. Financial applications do have a need for these kind of implicit error checks. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Company & Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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