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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Mar 8 19:55:37 CET 2014


On Sat, 8 Mar 2014 18:49:02 +0000
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If the proposal goes forward, I'll live with it, and will simply avoid
> using the `Decimal` type to convert from floats or ints.  But I'd really
> prefer to keep the short Decimal(x) spelling as something simple and
> non-magic, and find more complicated ways (quotes!) of spelling the magic
> stuff.

For the record, as a non-float expert, Mark's arguments convince me.

Just my 2 cents ;-)

Regards

Antoine.




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