On 3/28/2013 2:13 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> I would have rather made that part of the column definition similar to
> how we create timestamps with or without timezones. If a column is
> tracking Yen it should always be Yen. Y10,000 should never display as
> $100.00 just because the locale changes.
or to another extreme, part of the data, such that different rows could
have different monetary units. (eg, money is implemented as a pair
(currency,amount). eeek, then you'd need exchange rate tables and
such. hahahahaha, what a nightmare.
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