Always wrap BigNumbers returned by web3 with our own version and add comment

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/contract_wrappers/token_wrapper.ts b/src/contract_wrappers/token_wrapper.ts
index cedbfbdae..69bcc9024 100644
--- a/src/contract_wrappers/token_wrapper.ts
+++ b/src/contract_wrappers/token_wrapper.ts
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ export class TokenWrapper extends ContractWrapper {
 
         const tokenContract = await this.getTokenContractAsync(tokenAddress);
         let balance = await tokenContract.balanceOf.call(ownerAddress);
-        // The BigNumber instance returned by Web3 is of a much older version then our own, we therefore
-        // should always re-instantiate the returned BigNumber after retrieval.
+        // Wrap BigNumbers returned from web3 with our own (later) version of BigNumber
         balance = new BigNumber(balance);
         return balance;
     }
@@ -44,6 +43,7 @@ export class TokenWrapper extends ContractWrapper {
         const tokenContract = await this.getTokenContractAsync(tokenAddress);
         const proxyAddress = await this.getProxyAddressAsync();
         let allowanceInBaseUnits = await tokenContract.allowance.call(ownerAddress, proxyAddress);
+        // Wrap BigNumbers returned from web3 with our own (later) version of BigNumber
         allowanceInBaseUnits = new BigNumber(allowanceInBaseUnits);
         return allowanceInBaseUnits;
     }