At 08:48 AM 10/26/2001 -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
>Then Uri briefly described his plan to write a module to support BCD
>arithmetic. The question arose as to what names should be used to
>indicate the range of numbers that can be represented.
>
>I recommend using the following names, taken from the XML Schema spec:
>totalDigits and fractionDigits.
>
>Their meaning is obvious to most people; contrast this with precision
>and scale. (To avoid a naming convention debate I could easily
>accept a more perlish total_digits, etc.)
We probably ought to use significant digits as well, though only a small
subset of perl's users will know what they are or how to properly use 'em.
Dan
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