[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed

[Greg Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
>> the important thing about a clock that it *keeps going forward*
> 
> That would be a *strictly* monotonic clock, as opposed to merely monotonic.

Well, yes, but even that's not enough -- it needs to go forward
at a reasonably constant rate, otherwise it's just as useless.
If it had enough resolution, it could go forward by one femtosecond
every hour for a while and still call itself strictly monotonic...

-- 
Greg