Against PEP 240

[Laura Creighton]

"Nick Perkins" <nperkins7 at home.com>:
>On the other hand, the current system has never bothered me.  I enjoy having
>tiny inaccuracies hidden from me.  It all depends on coming to peace with
>the idea that a float is just a number that is very close to the number that
>I want it to be.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
    - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

(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.

Laura