I rather like supporting short float representation. Given that CPython is adopting it, I'm sure Jython will adopt this approach too as part of a future Jython 3.x release.<div><br></div><div>- Jim</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Michael Foord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Mark Dickinson wrote:<br>
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[snip...]<div class="im"><br>
Discussion points<br>
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(1) Any objections to including this into py3k? If there's<br>
controversy, then I guess we'll need a PEP.<br>
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Big +1<div class="im"><br>
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(2) Should other Python implementations (Jython,<br>
IronPython, etc.) be expected to use short float repr, or should<br>
it just be considered an implementation detail of CPython?<br>
I propose the latter, except that all implementations should<br>
be required to satisfy eval(repr(x)) == x for finite floats x.<br>
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Short float repr should be an implementation detail, so long as eval(repr(x)) == x still holds.<br>
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Michael Foord<br><font color="#888888">
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