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]> 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}