Against PEP 240

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9f51p601lqg at enews2.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
>news:9f3sa5$45p$1 at panix6.panix.com...
>>Alex:
>>>
>>>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:

The dictionary definitions don't represent the standard distinctions
used in CS.
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