[Tutor] Re: Dynamic decimal size

Erik Price erikprice@mac.com
Fri Mar 7 07:51:00 2003


On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 09:27  PM, Tim Peters wrote:

>> Some others have said they would, but I'm not sure it's fully done,
>> and Tim has said that he'd prefer to see an implementation that fully
>> follows Mike Cowlishaw's proposal at www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/ .
>
> That's still so, and Eric Price has made great progress toward that 
> end very
> recently.  Some version of that should be available "soon", and IBM's
> proposal (spearheaded by Cowlishaw) is by far the best thought-out 
> proposal
> of this ilk.

Hm.  There must be something about Python that attracts the Eri[c|k] 
Prices.  (That's not me!)


Erik





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