Guido van Rossum wrote:
Indeed, monetary types solve different problems than decimal types. Financial applications do have a need for these kind of implicit error checks.
But this is easily done by creating a custom class -- which has the advantage that the set of constraints can be specialized to the needs of a specific application. When we add a monetary type to the language we'll never get it right for all apps. OTOH, I think we could get a fixed point type right.
True. A real implementation of a good working decimal type with adjustable rounding rules would certainly go a long way and the money type could be built on top of it.
What support for money does SQL have?
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