Against PEP 240

[Alex Martelli]

"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
news:9f3sa5$45p$1 at panix6.panix.com...
    ...
> >misinterpretation.  As Python's longs "obviously" (to any Pythonista:-)
> >provide infinite-precision INTEGRAL arithmetic, what Roman was asking,
    ...
> C'mon, Alex, you know better than that: longs are unbounded precision,
> not infinite precision.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=infinite:

in·fi·nite (nf-nt)
adj.
    1. Having no boundaries or limits.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=unbounded

un·bound·ed (n-boundd)
adj.
    1. Having no boundaries or limits: unbounded space.

Feeling picky today?-)


Alex