On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:37:27PM -0500, Matthew Fulmer wrote: > 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.
Arrgh! I started using ScaledDecimal for representing time magnitudes in TimeZoneDatabase <http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1076> quite some time ago, and it works very well and is quite efficient. Are the licensing issues resolvable? Can I help? Dave _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners