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ibejoeb
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Engineering principles for building financial syst...
The string "3.99" always comes back as a string, but when you need do anything at all to it, it resolves down to the same problem.
langcss
on July 11, 2024
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Ideally, one should make illegal state unrepresentable. The problem with a string is there is no guarantee it represents a money amount.
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