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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 02:53:42PM +0100, Stefan Krah wrote:

> That is why I think we should seriously consider moving to IEEE semantics
> for a decimal literal.  Among other things:

Okay, I'm confused. I thought the decimal module had IEEE-754 semantics, 
and so I assumed that so would any decimal literal. What have I missed?



-- 
Steven