Re: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics - language lawyer question

["David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Where have you been?  The Brits went to decimal pounds years ago.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Information Systems Annex was RE: Dispatching and generics -
language lawyer question


> Robert Dewar wrote:
> > Decimal floating-point would be quite useless in financial
> > applications as far as I can see (COBOL does not have this
>
> Just out of curiousity, do people use decimal arithmetic for monetary
> systems that aren't decimal? E.g., pence/shillings/pounds don't decompose
> nicely into decimals to start with. Just curious if there are programming
> languages that have built-in support (language or library) to handle such?
>
> --
> Darren New
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>
> Humility? Why would I need to show some humility?
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