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Intl.NumberFormat support #15
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cc @sffc |
Maybe this mismatch goes away if BigDecimals are always normalized? The main difference would be in how the default is treated: BigDecimals should omit rounding by default, I think, not round on Number's terms. If rounding options are used explicitly, then great, no mismatch. |
I think it would be reasonable if BigDecimal had a different default rounding strategy than Number (or BigInteger), but it should still allow Intl.NumberFormat to apply its own rounding. For example, when rendering a currency, you should obey the currency rounding rules. |
It seems like
Intl.NumberFormat.prototype.format
should support BigDecimal transparently, just as it supports BigInt.On the ICU level, this should be straightforward, using the same API as BigInt uses.
On a function API level, we have clear precedent with BigInt that we should overload the
format
andformatToParts
methods.The complexity comes in for options processing: NumberFormat is based on rounding the input, but BigDecimal is all about avoiding implicit rounding. How should that all be handled?
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