Hi, Matt. We worked closely with many enterprise
customers, including financial ones, during our development phase and beta
period, and support for decimal arithmetic was not a priority for them. I've also
read many thousands of FlexCoders and Beta list emails during the Flex 1, 1.5,
and 2 cycles, and I recall only a handful raising this issue. Like you, I'm surprised by this. I don't
know whether most Flex developers simply haven't needed decimal arithmetic for
the applications they are developing, or whether they're working around the
lack of it in _javascript_, ECMAScript, ActionScript, and Flex by using
some particular technique such as doing server-side computation, scaling to
integers, or porting a library like you're considering. I believe the committee designing the next
version of ECMAScript, which Adobe sits on, is considering adding a decimal
type to the language. In the meantime, I think a community
effort to port an open-source library would be great. Adobe would probably be
happy to help make it available. However, given the relatively small percentage
of our customers asking for this feature, it's unlikely that the Flex team will
write or port such a library in the near future. - Gordon From: Gordon, -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
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