30 Jun
2006
30 Jun
'06
1:50 p.m.
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Travis Oliphant wrote:
I am, however, sympathetic to the arguments for wanting floating-point defaults. I wanted to change this originally but was convinced to not make such a major change for back-ward compatibility (more on that later).
Before 1.0, it seems right to go with the best design and take some short-run grief for it if necessary. If the right default is float, but extant code will be hurt, then let float be the default and put the legacy-code fix (function redefinition) in the compatability module. One view ... Alan Isaac