Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is a safe Haskell data type to store and manipulate Money values?

Am 05.04.2017 um 05:20 schrieb Richard A. O'Keefe:

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On 5/04/2017, at 3:53 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

Yeah, floating point is a no-go for monetary values. They can be the right tool when combining percentages, or actualy any factor that is supposed to be multiplied with a monetary value.

*Binary* floats, yes. But IEEE *decimal* floats

Ah, right, I forgot about these.

were specifically designed to support commercial calculations, and the current COBOL standard offers decimal floats as one of three interpretations of COBOL fixed-point arithmetic.

What languages besides Cobol actually make use of them?

It helps to have hardware that supports decimal floats, of course. Probably no surprise that current z/Series and Power machines do, most others don't (yet).

Are there any plans by Intel or AMD to support them? I'm not aware of any, but you never know.