On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:24:06 PM UTC-6, Andrew Barnert wrote:
The decision was discussed at the time, and all the pros and cons were hashed out. If you're not willing to read that discussion, your opinion that the change was a mistake is worth exactly as much as that of any individual user who asked for the change.
hi Andrew, I have been studying the python-ideas archive & the python-dev archive all night. I have read hundreds of posts. I am finding something very interesting. My proposal has been coming up (time and again) in different flavors for many years; with all the same people participating (with all of the very same discussion almost verbatim). Just for history sake, I thought you might be interested in a blast from the past from Raymond Hettinger in response to Lennart Benschop who made the decimal literal proposal in Oct, 2007: Just for historical context only: On Oct 26, 1:54 am, Lennart Benschop <[hidden email]http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=1580823&i=0> wrote:
My proposal: - Any decimal constant suffixed with the letter "D" or "d" will be interpreted as a literal of the Decimal type. This also goes for decimal constants with exponential notation.
There's nothing new here that hasn't already been proposed and discussed on python-dev. There were no major objections to the idea; however, it will need to wait until there is a good C implementation of the decimal module (which is in the works but coming along very, very slowly). {from the history department}