<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2012, at 6:11 PM, John O'Connor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Benjamin Peterson <<a href="mailto:benjamin@python.org">benjamin@python.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">But why would you want to pass a float? It seems like API abuse to me.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Agreed. Anything else seems meaningless.</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I concur. This is very much a non-problem.</div><div>There is no need to add more code and slow</div><div>running time with superfluous type checks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div><br></body></html>