Re: Name for converter of units/currency
| From: | Alex Black | Date: | Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:40:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Name for converter of units/currency | ||
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I agree.
Any data source for conversion rates is either going to be commercial or
unreliable :)
_alex
> How are you intending to find the conversion ratio? If it's to be passed
> into the function by the caller, then I would suggest that the class is
> unnecessary. $dollars = $sterling / $conversion_ratio is not something
> that needs to be encapsulated. If it is to be located from some outside
> service, we need to talk about the reliability and general case for this.
> If it's to be stored in a database, there are a plethora of implementation
> issues. My vote would be to remove currency conversion entirely from PEAR.
-alex