Re: [go-nuts] Re: Decimal survey

2019-03-28 Thread Robert Engels
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 wrote: > > A huge +1 on that last comment. You never want to store currency in fl

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Decimal survey

2019-03-28 Thread Marcin Romaszewicz
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 m

[go-nuts] Re: Decimal survey

2019-03-28 Thread Pat Farrell
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 drive