4 Mar
2020
4 Mar
'20
5:43 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:21:46PM +0000, Mark Dickinson wrote:
I'd argue that on a practicality-beats-purity basis, it wouldn't be unreasonable to register both `Decimal` and `float` as implementing `TotalOrdering` (or whatever the ABC ends up being called).
And that seems perfectly practical until somebody tries to compare or sort floats and discovers that they actually don't implement a total ordering if any NANs have crept into their data.
This can be a genuine pain point:
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/K35GTW...
https://bugs.python.org/issue33084
and various other discussions.
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Steven