On Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:08:30 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Which proposal are you referring to here?
hi Steven, well, all of them. The archive has discussions pertaining to every one of the discussions we have had on this list. From "python has a bug," to python needs a decimal literal, to "how come this Decimal(.01) doesn't work," to (believe this or not) one person on the ideas archive actually proposed that "all python numbers be unified," I kid you not. Guido put that one to bed easily with one post and there was no further discussion of the topic, but the idea is that I'm not the first one to think about these things. The discussions are pretty much the same as the ones we've had here on this list with people frustrated for pretty much the same reasons. ( some of it ignorance, some naiveté, some over-zealous, one or two crazy like me). Go here: http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Python-python-dev-f1801473.html and search for D'Aprano decimal or D'Aprano Decimal or search on unify python numbers The discussions are very interesting, very educational, and very entertaining. marcus