[Newbies] Number formatting printf/sprintf for Squeak?
Matthew Fulmer
tapplek at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 19:37:27 UTC 2009
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:28:29AM -0800, Chris Cunningham wrote:
> I'd be leary of basing Currency off of ScaledDecimal, especially if there is
> to be much manipulation of it (such as multiplication or division). The
> reason is that ScaledDecimal keeps the representation of their numbers as
> fractions under the covers - which can results in some odd (and incorrect)
> results.
ScaledDecimal is also probably going to be removed from squeak
soon, as it has licensing issues.
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