From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T06:40:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Currency class (was Major Addition Bug?)


On May 12, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Carl Youngblood wrote:

>
>> - For financial calculations use specialised classes (which should
>>   handle different currencies, BTW)
>
>
> This got me thinking.  It would be really cool to have a currency 
> class that allowed for conversion between currencies using some 
> web-retrieved table of current conversion rates.  Rates would be 
> cached after first being retrieved and would be updated once a day or 
> so.

That's a very cool idea. If you do decide to do this:
http://www.imf.org/external/np/tre/sdr/db/rms_fpt.cfm

Current currency exchange rates, from the IMF. In CSV form. Averaged 
over the last five days, it appears. Apple's builtin calculator app 
uses it to update it's currency tables, I believe.

cheers,
--Mark