[issue19086] Make fsum usable incrementally.

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

The possible use cases are so varied & fuzzy it seems better to use an object for this, rather than funk-ify `fsum`.  Say, class Summer.  Then methods could be invented as needed, with whatever state is required belonging to Summer objects rather than passed around in funky calling-sequence/return conventions.  Like,

s = Summer() # new object
s.add(3.1)   # add one number to running sum
s.sum()      # returns sum so far as float: 3.1
s.update(iterable_returning_numbers)  # add a bunch of numbers to sum
s.combine(another_Summer_object)  # add Summer's
s.sum_as_decimal(precision=None) # sum so far as Decimal
s.sum_as_fraction()  # exact sum so far as Fraction

Blah blah blah ;-)

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