From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@...>
Date: 2005-04-25T02:37:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Implementing COBOL style number formatting (Was: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?)

Jim Freeze wrote:
>
> Hmm, could this be emulated with a wrapper around BigDecimal?

Certainly.   It's only practical purpose would be to automatically keep 
track of the decimal point during operations.   That is I wasn't thinking of 
actually storing and reading decimals in packed decimal or zoned decimal 
format.

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J. Lambert