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On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 08:17:22AM +0000, Ovid via perl5-porters wrote:
> Since we're talking about wishes, would a decimal type be interesting? For example, in floating point, you can't represent .3. So the following evaluates to false:
>
> if ( 0 == .1 + .2 - .3 ) { ... }
Yes, it would be interesting, but I have no good idea how to implement this
in a performant and portable way.
> Fun fact: many COBOL-to-Java death marches have fallen down and not gotten back up because Java can't match COBOL's precision due to lacking COBOL's native decimal type (and simulating a Decimal type via classes meant that Java couldn't get the performance needed).
This I didn't know. Interesting. Thanks.
Nicholas Clark
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