[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Mark H. Harris]

On Saturday, March 8, 2014 12:08:30 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
 

> Which proposal are you referring to here? 
>

hi Steven,  well,  all of them. The archive has discussions pertaining to 
every
one of the discussions we have had on this list.  From "python has a bug," 
to 
python needs a decimal literal, to "how come this Decimal(.01) doesn't 
work," to
(believe this or not) one person on the ideas archive actually proposed 
that 
"all python numbers be unified," I kid you not. Guido put that one to bed 
easily
with one post and there was no further discussion of the topic, but the 
idea is
that I'm not the first one to think about these things.  The discussions
are pretty much the same as the ones we've had here on this list with 
people 
frustrated for pretty much the same reasons. ( some of it ignorance, some 
naiveté,
some over-zealous, one or two crazy like me). 

Go here: http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Python-python-dev-f1801473.html

and search for   D'Aprano decimal    or     D'Aprano Decimal

or search on      unify python numbers


The discussions are very interesting, very educational, and very 
entertaining.

marcus



 
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