[Python-ideas] Hexadecimal floating literals
Rhodri James
rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Fri Sep 22 07:50:46 EDT 2017
On 22/09/17 03:57, David Mertz wrote:
> I think you are missing the point I was assuming at. Having a binary/hex
> float literal would tempt users to think "I know EXACTLY what number I'm
> spelling this way"... where most users definitely don't in edge cases.
Quite. What makes me -0 on this idea is that a lot of the initial
enthusiasm on this list came from people saying exactly that.
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