Hi Marcel,
Thanks for sharing the plan. I'll pay close attention to this package. I
actually have an existing private package that works but moving to a public
working package would lower the maintenance cost and perhaps also guarantee
a higher quality.
Johan
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 at 03:00 <m...@golang.org> wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> I do plan to provide some kind functionality of this nature, I'm just not
> quite sure yet how. It could either be:
>
> - the API as proposed
> - returning an interface{} value of the underlying amount that the
> user would need to cast to the appropriate type,
> - returning some Number interface value
>
> I am currently working on the Number and plurals package. I planned to not
> expose "amount" in the currency API until it is clear how all of this is
> going to look like, as to avoid having to change the currency API later.
>
> Ideally we would also have a 128-bit precision decimal float type
> available in core or the text package before finalizing such API.
>
> If this is really blocking, I could consider adding like a Value (or
> Amount?) method to return the underlying raw interface of the amount. This
> would not necessarily be incompatible with adding, for instance, a Decimal
> and/or Number method later, although no guarantees it won't change.
>
> Marcel
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Johan Jian An Sim <johan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There is no issue section in this repository to start a discussion.
>>
>> I would like to ask about the status of currency package. There seems to
>> be plan for further development according to the comments (
>> https://github.com/golang/text/blob/master/currency/format.go#L26). Any
>> update on this?
>>
>> I would love to use this package to store currency value and pass around
>> my application. But there is currently no way to extract the stored amount.
>>
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