Based on your idea, I made my own Perl Eurocalculator with the following changes:

  1. Has a cloneable object-oriented interface
  2. The euro is a currency too, so toCurrency isn't really clear => uses to_national
  3. Includes the Luxembourgian Franc (there are _12_ euro countries)
  4. Uses the official three-letter abbreviations
  5. Can handle user-defined rates
  6. Has both from_euro and to_national
  7. Update (200201021239+0100) Corrected wrong values: DEM (typo), FIM (typo), ATS

Without further ado, here's the module:

package Calc::Euro;
use strict;
use Carp;
my %rates = qw(
        LUF 40.3399     ATS 13.7603     BEF 40.3399
        NLG 2.20371     FIM 5.94573     FRF 6.55957
        DEM 1.95583     GRD 340.75      IEP 0.787564
        ITL 1936.27     PTE 200.482     ESP 166.386 
);

sub new {
    my ($proto, $currency) = @_;
    my $rate = defined $currency && (
                   $rates{uc $currency} || 0 + $currency
               ) ||
               ( ref $proto eq __PACKAGE__ ?
                   $$proto
               :
                   croak("Invalid currency")
               );
    return bless \$rate, ref($proto) || $proto;
}

sub to_euro {
    my ($self, $amount) = @_;
    return $amount / $$self;
}

sub to_national {
    my ($self, $amount) = @_;
    return $amount * $$self;
}

sub from_euro     { goto &to_national }
sub from_national { goto &to_euro }
sub clone         { goto &new }

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And of course a script to prove it works ;)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Calc::Euro;

my $eurocalc = Calc::Euro->new('NLG');
print $eurocalc->to_national(1), "\n"; # 2.20371

my $anothercalc = $eurocalc->clone();
print $eurocalc->to_national(1), "\n"; # 2.20371

$eurocalc = Calc::Euro->new('BEF');
print $anothercalc->from_euro($eurocalc->to_euro(20)), "\n";
# approx 1

my $foo = Calc::Euro->new(1.5);
print $foo->to_national(2), "\n"; # 3

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Have fun! 

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$

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In reply to Calc::Euro (Re: The Euro) by Juerd
in thread The Euro by simon.proctor

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