Why not FP for Money?

[Batista, Facundo]

[aleaxit at yahoo.com]

#- > Of course, one can take extra precautions to always have 
#- correct numbers
#- > when working with floats and monetary amounts (eg. I did 
#- that for the
#- > Excel sheet the sales dpt used).  Why bother, though, if 
#- one has the
#- > Decimal type?
#- 
#- It seems to me that you just showed that decimal is no panacea: you
#- still have to know where to round and to which precision.  
#- decimal is a
#- great tool but is not and cannot be a magic wand...

Remember all that Decimal is a first step to a Money data type, which for
example, could deal with this.

It's clear to me now that it's better to build a Money data type over
Decimal. When I proposed a pre-PEP for Money, that was clear to others, and
that's why I was "redirected" to work in Decimal.

.	Facundo
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