[Python-3000] PEP 3101 suggested corrections

[Larry Hastings]

Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> The article says "decimal" is a synonym. What is the point to use an
> unknown synonym instead of a well-known word?

His point is that Python has a fixed-point number type called "Decimal", 
and that this will lead to confusion.  I can see his point, but we all 
know from years of C programming that "%d" takes an int and formats it 
in base 10--there is no confusion about this.  Indeed, I suspect 
describing this as "denary" would lead to far more confusion, and using 
the format character "d" to take a Decimal object instead of an int 
would lead to widespread panic and mayhem.  So -0.5 from me.


/larry/
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