You can contact me, and review github.com/robaho/fixed it is more designed for performance over flexibility the decimal.Decimal being more suited for the latter.
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Marcin Romaszewicz <marc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A huge +1 on that last comment. You never want to store currency in floating > point, but rather some form of fixed point notation, like your pennies > suggestion. > > Compounding errors on floating point representations of currency kill you. > For example, $0.01 is not exactly representable as float. How many dollars is > a billion pennies? > https://play.golang.org/p/aQiuvAzKkuO > > -- Marcin > > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:42 PM Pat Farrell <pat22...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 2:41:26 PM UTC-4, Daniel Theophanes wrote: >>> If you represent decimals or money in Go, I'd like to hear from you: >>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqXYCCCS4fTJXnRvB0qDWsbDXFL9tBBtwDY4y3Ym953nq5MQ/viewform >>> >>> I work on database/sql and a few sql drivers. I'm hoping to make working >>> with decimals, especially when working with databases, much easier. >> >> Not GO specific, but in 40+ years, the only choice for decimal money is to >> store them as pennies. If you like with an OO language, you can implement >> Money and Dollars (vs Pounds or Euros). >> >> Using floating point for money is a sin. >> It simply never works. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
