> On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 06:47 PM, Mat�as Giovannini wrote: > > > > > On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 08:48 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > >>>> That's the reason I wrote the Number-Handling-Patch and even > >>>> improved it (or better fixed it since I forgot something :). > >>> > >>> Is this in an issue somewhere? If not please make it so. Can you > >>> set > >>> the milestone to 1.4? Geir, was this approved for > inclusion? What > >>> further revision does it need? > >> > >> Not for 1.4, as it has the chance of breaking lots of > stuff. There's > >> a good suggestion on how to avoid it, but there's no > reason to do in > >> 1.4 - I see 1.4 as the catchup release to get the stuff > that's been > >> done since 1.3 out, and new stuff - Number changes, Map > support - as > >> new... > >> > >> Yes? > > > > I don't think FP would break existing templates if implemented with > > care (although I don't see myself the necessity for them); > but I just > > *cringe* at the idea of balooning the numeric types to > > BigInteger/BigDecimal's. It's just megaton-scale overkill. > > Is that excessive overkill? :) > > > > > I'd say that any application sensitive enough to overflow to care > > should implement careful (pardon the redundancy) business logic > > outside the template. Otherwise, every Velocity user would > pay a heavy > > tax on the marginal gain of people that should know better than > > implement BigInteger factorials in Velocity. > > Well, you might find people that believe that floating point doesn't > even *belong* in Velocity. > > > > > If I'm allowed to vote, I'd > > > > -1 > > > > on the numeric proposal as it is now. > > If you could give a technical reason why you think BI/BD is overkill, > that would be appreciated.
I know you did not mean me, but the answer is, that using BI/BD all the time include a huge performance issue. :) > > > geir > > > > > > > Mat�as. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > Geir Magnusson Jr 203-956-2604(w) > Adeptra, Inc. 203-434-2093(m) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 203-247-1713(m) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
