[Python-Dev] Fixed-point numeric type

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:53:03 -0500


[Ka-Ping Yee]
> No need for methods.  Other numeric types don't have them.  (Well,
> complex has .conjugate(), but that's very complex-specific.)

Please drop this one -- "no methods" remains a non-goal.  Strings didn't
have methods either, now use of string methods is ubiquitous, and Guido
approved of adding methods to numbers too years ago (but nobody ever got
around to adding some; e.g., long.numbits()).