[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Decimal type question [Prothon]

[John Lenton]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:53:31PM -0700, Michael Chermside wrote:
> 
> But lots of languages make other choices. The number of languages
> that have a single numeric type is pretty large... perl comes to
> mind, but I bet I could list 10 others without too much trouble.

perl doesn't have a single numeric type. Depending on how deep you
look into the issue, it has none (only a scalar type), or several
(scalars that are assigned integers are integers until they are
promoted to float when used floatishly).

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