Re: cast from integer to money

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
 
>> There were reasonable arguments made why this could be a bad idea
>> -- primarily around the question of whether '395' represented
>> $3.95 or $395.00.
> 
> That's not too hard to figure out, right?  If 1.00 means $1.00, 1
> had better not mean $0.01, or there will be riots in the streets.
> 
>> Going the other way has issues with truncation of
>> fractions and the number of digits which can be handled.
> 
> Notice I didn't propose that.
 
If you're just talking about going in the one direction, I might be
persuaded that's sane, especially because of the case of literals,
and especially since there are currencies where fractional amounts
aren't used in the conventional representation.
 
-Kevin