Against PEP 240

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.991303187.29241.python-list at python.org>,
Laura Creighton  <lac at cd.chalmers.se> wrote:
>
>(Not to pick on Nick, you do have to in some way get peace with the floating
>point to use it, though _my_ _word_ we are different people tempermentally.
>Hidden inaccuracies are what keeps me up at night, sweating.  No
>hyperbole.  But I think doing nothing rather than fixing the default
>behaviour of python on treatment of numbers that have a period in them
><And thanks to more conversation with Remco Gerlich I think that it
>is decimal, not rational that is the way to go, somebody try to talk us
>out of it>  is exactly what Burke was talking about.

You write the PEP, I'll write the code.  (I'm already doing the latter;
I'm not interested in the political end of this issue.)
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