[Tim Peters]
> ...
> Other important implementations of the standard didn't
> make this mistake; for example, Java's BigDecimal
> (java.lang.String) constructor follows the rules here:
>
> http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimalj/deccons.html
Hmm -- or maybe it doesn't! The text says:
The BigDecimal constructed from the String is in a
standard form, as though the add method had been
used to add zero to the number with unlimited
precision.[1]
and I read "add zero" as "applies context". But then it says
"unlmited precision". I'm not at all sure what it means now.
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