2 Feb
2004
2 Feb
'04
4:46 p.m.
Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net:
A well-designed library will restore only *part* of the context. Some of the state in numeric context controls arithmetic behavior, but other parts are informational, telling you about exceptional conditions that occurred.
That suggests there shouldn't be a single context object, but two separate objects, one for modes and one for exception flags. The modes object could then be saved and restored without affecting the flags.
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