[Python-Dev] Minutes from the Numeric Coercion dev-day session

[David Ascher]

GvR:

> [Paul]
> > David Ascher suggested during the talk that comparisons of floats could
> > raise a warning unless you turned that warning off (which only
> > knowledgable people would do). I think that would go a long way to
> > helping them find and deal with serious floating point inaccuracies in
> > their code.
>
> You mean only for == and !=, right?

Right.

> We should wait until 2.2 though --
> we haven't clearly decided that this is the way we want to go.

Sure.  It was just a suggestion for a way to address the inherent problems
in having newbies work w/ FP (where newbie in this case is 99.9% of the
programming population, IMO).

-david