[Python-Dev] RE: Adding decimal (aka FixedPoint) numbers to Python

[Greg Ewing]

Michael McLay <mclay@nist.gov>:

> I could change the name from decimal() to FixedPoint(), but the
> capital letters in the name scream "ugly".

Worse, it would completely lose the connotation that it is a *decimal*
number type, which surely is the main point of it in the first place!

If it's somehow important that the name contain at least one capital
letter, how about Decimal, or perhaps FixedDecimal if it's felt
necessary to distinguish it from some potential floating decimal type.

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