Hi,
Dealing with "numeric"s right now in cases where it's really important
that the scale is correct is quite painful. For example, if I want to
accept a EUR amount as an input, I often want to reject values such as
'21.413', but I'd be fine with e.g. '21.410000'. My suggestion is to
add two functions: one to return the number of decimal places in a
numeric, and another one to remove non-significant decimal places.
These two functions are useful on their own, and when combined allow you
to look at the number of significant decimal places in a numeric.
Any thoughts, objections?
.m
