[Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  If Python were to do something different then a naively translated
> algorithm from another language would fail.  It's the behaviour that
> numerically-aware people expect, and I'd expect to get complaints from
> those people if it changed.

Numerically-aware people are likely to be aware of the differences in
languages that they use.   I think in this day and age you are more
likely to hear from confused Java programmers than from Fortran or
even C folks.