Money units

Ignacio Vivona altobarba at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 18:39:56 UTC 2007


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On 11/6/07, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> On 6-Nov-07, at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Sastre wrote:
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> > Hi there,
> >
> >     has anybody tried to use the Units package from squeak map for
> > monetary values?
> >
> >     I'm trying this Units package and the Avi Bryant's Money package
> > I've found in squeaksource
> >
> >     any general tips for dealing with currencies?
> It's a particularly tricky problem since the relative values change
> frequently, rapidly and chaotically; honestly I would prefer to claim
> that money is not really a Unit in any meaningful way. Units are
> really defined values with defined relationships to other derived and
> founding units. Currency is a medium of exchange with variable ratios.
>
> tim
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