If we want to be taken remotely seriously by the banking and merchant communities, floats need to go.
People keep claiming that, and yet I just did YET ANOTHER google search for "banking apis", clicked through to the Open Financial Exchange standard (from Microsoft and Quicken), and what do you know! Money amounts look like floats:
Code:
<STMTTRN>
<TRNTYPE>CREDIT
<DTPOSTED>20070315
<DTUSER>20070315
<TRNAMT>200.00
<FITID>980315001
<NAME>DEPOSIT
<MEMO>automatic deposit
</STMTTRN>
http://www.ofx.net/OFXExamplesPage/OFXExamples.aspx<TRNTYPE>CREDIT
<DTPOSTED>20070315
<DTUSER>20070315
<TRNAMT>200.00
<FITID>980315001
<NAME>DEPOSIT
<MEMO>automatic deposit
</STMTTRN>