Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> added the comment:
Seems so, for a static typing. But Python is a dynamically typed language, isn't?
I think we're talking at cross purposes. Static and dynamic typing have nothing to do with this. What do you think the result of `1.0 + Decimal(1)` should be, and more importantly why? Possible options are: - Decimal('2') - 2.0 (a float) - a `TypeError` (as now) - some kind of horrible user-configurable-global-state-dependent answer Bear in mind that you have to pick a behaviour that's a good default choice for all potential application domains, and that's *hard*. ("In the face of ambiguity ...", and all that.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43602> _______________________________________