<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Jeff Hardy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdhardy@gmail.com">jdhardy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<snip> ...<br> I added conversions from System.Decimal to decimal.Decimal in<br>
2.7.2, but I didn't think about implicit conversions of other types.<br>
I'm thinking now that anything that's either a System.Decimal or<br>
implicitly convertible to System.Decimal should be accepted.<br>
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- Jeff<br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>Thank you, Jeff! I'll go remove the workaround from my source code (actually move it to an exception handler). <br>[For those who don't know -- Jeff has just fixed a work item I originally reported in 2008. Somebody by him a beer!]<br>
<br>I would agree that implicit conversions should also be included in the fix. Any data which is "decimalish" should be handled as a decimal to avoid the necessity for the programmer to specify back-and-forth conversions.<br>
--<br>Vernon Cole<br><br>