From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-07-27T22:17:49+09:00
Subject: Re: for matz to do

On 7/27/07, Dave Rose <bitdoger2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> i'd like to see two new ruby language additions....
> 1.) in the sprintf formatting command a way to format for business.....
>  i.e.... processing payroll chks...with asterik fill AND commas
>  and space fill AND commas or anything fill AND commas to do this
>   *****$1,312.00
>  without having to write a separate def function....
>
>  ...and....
> i'm comming from BBX (Business Basic).... a new kind of number... like
> Bignum
> ...but Biznum .... where all intermediate calculations are correctly and
> consistently rounded. we have a billing system not written in BBX and
> it's always pennies off due to round off error ... there is value in
> this...because BBX has it and i've never had to worry about round off
> errors

Look at BigDecimal