[swift-users] Swift 3 Decimal NSDecimal NSDecimalNumber

[Alex Thurston]

Hello, this is my first message to swift-users so please let me know if I should be doing anything differently.

I'm working with an app that already uses NSDecimalNumber, mostly for currency and formatting, and we have many extensions for NSDecimalNumber written in Obj-C.

Swift 3 introduced the Decimal class, which at first I thought was supposed to 'replace' NSDecimalNumber in Swift, like Error is the new NSError, etc.  However, upon further investigation, it's not clear to me that this is actually the case. It appears that Swift 3's Decimal is more just an NSDecimal, but with some bridging so it can use NSDecimalNumber's methods when needed. What I'm wondering is, should I be replacing NSDecimalNumber in my app with Decimal? Is Decimal the successor to NSDecimalNumber in Swift? Since my app is doing a lot of formatting, it would require much casting between Decimal and NSDecimalNumber, or adding of extensions to use, so I don't think it would be natural/convenient without many extensions. Is Swift planning to improve Decimal to be more usable with NumberFormatter, or other object-oriented number APIs? Hopefully I have given enough information to answer my question. 

Thank you 

Alex Thurston
athurston at icsusa.com


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