PEP 240 scares me

[Pearu Peterson]

Hi!

Thanks for your replies. I now got it right what's in PEP 240.
The Proposed idea as it really is, is most surprising (not sure if 
it is good or bad thing). 
Seems that I have done too much numerics, so that I didn't realize that
typing 1.2 could then mean internal transformation rational(10*1.2,10).

Anyway, I take back my panic in my first message. 
Sorry for the confusion.

	Pearu

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Steve Holden wrote:

> "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:99e2h61aao at news2.newsguy.com...
> > "Pearu Peterson" <pearu at cens.ioc.ee> wrote in message
> > news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0103222338530.29360-100000 at kev.ioc.ee...
> >     [snip]
> > > But making 1.2 to be a rational
> > >                                 1
> > >                                ---
> > >                                 2
> > > will most definitely surprise new (Python) programmers even more
> *because*
> >
> > Nobody's proposing THAT, AFAIK -- 1.2 would be the rational 6/5 (and I
> > gather the idea is that one uses 1.2e0 to get a float of similar value).
> >
> >
> Maybe Pearu complains about a typo which looks unlike an error?
> 
> regards
>  Steve
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