May 20, 2005
4:46 p.m.
[Tim Peters]
... Other important implementations of the standard didn't make this mistake; for example, Java's BigDecimal (java.lang.String) constructor follows the rules here:
Hmm -- or maybe it doesn't! The text says: The BigDecimal constructed from the String is in a standard form, as though the add method had been used to add zero to the number with unlimited precision.[1] and I read "add zero" as "applies context". But then it says "unlmited precision". I'm not at all sure what it means now.