[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues

[Christopher A. Craig]

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:

> What's so hard about rat(2,3) ?
> 
> And if that doesn't look right, simply do:
> 
> R = rat(1,1)
> 
> 2/R/3
> 
> This works without any changes to the language.

My thoughts are moving towards that.  I also wouldn't especially mind
seeing rationals added to the standard library instead of the core,
though I'm not sure how that effects Numeric.

The two best suggestions (IMHO) I've seen so far are the above and
Guido's 2/3r where that is actually the int 2 over the rational 3r.

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