Rethinking Numeric

[Christian Stimming]

Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2014, 16:24:21 schrieb John Ralls:
> I’ve got the start of the trial implementation pushed to
> https://github.com/jralls/gnucash/tree/libmpdecimal. It builds, but it
> doesn’t pass all of the tests yet. I think it’s quite promising and I’ll
> keep working on it, but I wanted to give everyone a chance to see what it
> looks like. So far I’m leaving the existing API in place to simplify
> getting it working, but you’ll notice that the guts of the implementation
> is in a C++ wrapper to make it easy to use directly as the C++ rewrite
> progresses.

Hi John,

well, the new code and gnc_numeric implementation looks very interesting. 
However, I still do not quite understand what you are trying to fix here. You 
said "overflows", but I argued earlier in this discussion that the existence 
of overflows in itself is most probably not a problem because our business 
logic requirements will most probably require rounding anyway much earlier 
before we run into overflows. If the problem is in this direction, shouldn't 
we rather try to clarify the rounding requirements and implement those 
correctly, rather than adding more significant digits to our number data type?

Regards,

Christian

> 
> For those who don’t already know, I’m leaving Thursday for a month's
> vacation in Brussels and London. I expect I’ll check in here daily and may
> pop up on IRC from time to time, but I’m not planning to do a lot of
> GnuCash work.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
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