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Thu, Jun 11 2015 11:31 AMPermanent Link

Mike

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Does EWB support the currency delphi type?

One thing ive run into with JS is the number type isn't very useful for
financial calculations
Thu, Jun 11 2015 11:59 AMPermanent Link

Matthew Jones

Michael Margerum wrote:

> Does EWB support the currency delphi type?
>
> One thing ive run into with JS is the number type isn't very useful
> for financial calculations

No. Javascript only has "number" which is a floating point value, but
EWB does type safe calculations so long as you don't pass values in
from external javascript. I use Integer values of "pence" in my web
shop, and it all works just fine.

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Matthew Jones
Thu, Jun 11 2015 2:24 PMPermanent Link

Mike

consultant

On 6/11/15 11:59 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
> Michael Margerum wrote:
>
>> Does EWB support the currency delphi type?
>>
>> One thing ive run into with JS is the number type isn't very useful
>> for financial calculations
>
> No. Javascript only has "number" which is a floating point value, but
> EWB does type safe calculations so long as you don't pass values in
> from external javascript. I use Integer values of "pence" in my web
> shop, and it all works just fine.
>
yeh im doing math using my own routeines and ints but it would be
awesome if tim could build in currency support since a lot of his users
would be LOB app builders.  i didnt believe it when i type .1 + .2 in JS
bin and got back 0.30000000000000004
Fri, Jun 12 2015 4:26 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Michael,

<< yeh im doing math using my own routeines and ints but it would be awesome
if tim could build in currency support >>

I can't really build in currency support to an underlying language that I
don't control (JS), at least not without some serious performance
implications.

The only thing you can do is use rounding judiciously so that you always end
up with the number of decimal places that you want, and you don't accumulate
floating-point rounding errors.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Sat, Jun 13 2015 4:20 PMPermanent Link

Mike

consultant


> The only thing you can do is use rounding judiciously so that you always
> end up with the number of decimal places that you want, and you don't
> accumulate floating-point rounding errors.
>
> Tim Young
> Elevate Software
> www.elevatesoft.com

Tim, i'd gladly take a hit on performance to use a pascal currency type
that calls underlying JS libs to do all of this rounding.  It wouldn't
need to impact the single type.  That could continue using the
underlying javascript number type.  Just my 2 cents.
Mon, Jun 15 2015 4:14 AMPermanent Link

Matthew Jones

Michael Margerum wrote:

> i'd gladly take a hit on performance to use a pascal currency type
> that calls underlying JS libs to do all of this rounding.

Nothing to stop you doing your own then! 8-)

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Matthew Jones
Tue, Jun 16 2015 7:46 AMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Michael,

<< Tim, i'd gladly take a hit on performance to use a pascal currency type
that calls underlying JS libs to do all of this rounding.  It wouldn't
need to impact the single type.  That could continue using the underlying
javascript number type.  Just my 2 cents. >>

If you're talking about a custom compiler type, then that is a lot of work
away from being a reality.  There is a *lot* of code that would be required
to support such a beast, especially in terms of the JS that is emitted (the
type-checking for basic types like this is relatively easy).

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com


Wed, Jun 17 2015 9:08 AMPermanent Link

Mike

consultant

On 6/15/15 4:14 AM, Matthew Jones wrote:
> Michael Margerum wrote:
>
>> i'd gladly take a hit on performance to use a pascal currency type
>> that calls underlying JS libs to do all of this rounding.
>
> Nothing to stop you doing your own then! 8-)
>

Sure I can write anything. I could probably even write my own JS
transpiler but why would I when Tim is doing such an excellent job.

I was just throwing it out there that it would be nice if a pascal web
product supported the currency type.  I understand it's probably a lot
of work, but i'd bet almost every single user of this product is doing
money calculations since Delphi's sweet spot is LOB apps and its a pain
point I already encountered.

there's lots of other things that are probably more important and I
totally understand.  Just throwing it on the wish list.

Wed, Jun 17 2015 9:09 AMPermanent Link

Mike

consultant


> If you're talking about a custom compiler type, then that is a lot of
> work away from being a reality.  There is a *lot* of code that would be
> required to support such a beast, especially in terms of the JS that is
> emitted (the type-checking for basic types like this is relatively easy).
>

Understood.  thanks tim.  I'm looking forward to trying out EWB 2 when
it ships!

Wed, Jun 17 2015 10:46 AMPermanent Link

Matthew Jones

The key is what do you really require? The core number type you have in
Javascript is a floating point number, so can suffer inaccuracy.
There's nothing you can do really to improve it, but using EWB and the
Integer type ensures it stays as an integer. By using "Cents" instead
of dollars, you never have to go to floating point, other than for
formatting and input. If you must have floating point, then it wouldn't
be hard to do a class that works with strings, or even two integers.

I note though that Javascript users seem okay with the plain floating
point, as per http://openexchangerates.github.io/accounting.js/
though
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149055/how-can-i-format-numbers-as-mo
ney-in-javascript has the comment of "never use floating point for
currency", which is where I come in.

I don't think EWB needs anything more - I have accurate currency in my
web shop, and I've not had any funny values from adding tax etc.

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Matthew Jones
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