On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:31:10AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > >a) do nothing... nobody else seems to have noticed > >b) document the limited precision issue > >c) change the API to some awful Fortranish a part + b part to preserve > >precision > >d) turn the epoch parameter into a Math::BigFloat so a high resolution > >'string' can be passed in and document the behavior. > > > >It's not clear to me what the right solution is although a patch to > >implement option d sans the required documentation changes is attached. > > That seems right to me. Does anyone object to adding Math::BigFloat as a > prereq?
You may want to require a recent version; Tels has done a great job maintaining the Math::Big* modules, but AIUI they started off (and were shipped in older perls) with quite a few bugs.
