[Python-ideas] checking for identity before comparing built-in objects

[Greg Ewing]

Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> "For attribute specification, the implementation
> shall provide language-defined means, such as compiler directives, to
> specify a constant value for the attribute parameter for all standard
> operations in a block; the scope of the attribute value is the block
> with which it is associated."  I believe Decimal is mostly conforming,

That depends on whether "scope" is meant lexically or
dynamically. Decimal contexts are scoped dynamically.

-- 
Greg