April 28, 2011
11:26 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote: ..
But isn't a similar change needed for Decimal?
I did not look into this, but decimal contexts allow for more compliant implementations because you can trap FP exceptions differently in different contexts. We don't have this luxury with floats.