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Henri Biestro commented on JEXL-180:
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Michael, a BigDecimal is a Number and the example no longer gives a bad hint;
it only supposes people know their field (like you).
If you feel like it, you can contribute better documentation and examples to
the project.
The only caveat is that no-one feels like producing an official release so all
this is anyway moot...
> Documentation - suggests using float for financials
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> Key: JEXL-180
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JEXL-180
> Project: Commons JEXL
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Kimball Robinson
> Assignee: Henri Biestro
> Fix For: 3.0
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> The examples page:
> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jexl/reference/examples.html
> Uses a Float type to represent dollar amounts. This is a bad idea--floating
> point values are not large enough to represent larger transactions and this
> could teach developers bad habits, especially in enterprise environments.
> At the least you should use the Double class in your example.
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