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Comment by lxgr

> thank you Rust decimals represented as JSON floats

What do you mean? JSON doesn’t have floats, it has numbers, and how they’re used after being parsed is not part of the spec.

> If I ever see a monetary value stored in something else than integers I'm going to run away screaming

That’s good, then we’ll likely not be working on the same system :) I consider running from “amounts as integer” systems these days (but usually unfortunately can’t). In an idealized codebase that only seasoned financial programmers are allowed to touch, it can go well, but such a system is usually either overly exclusive or risks becoming brittle.

parent lxgr 4 months ago

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