Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am I losing my marbles, or is this a proposal to add the logical > > operations to FLOATING-POINT? > > Sort of. This is a proposal to keep compliant with the General Decimal > Arithmetic Specification, as we promised. > > http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
Or, more precisely: http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/damisc.html All right. Neither you nor I have lost our marbles, but the authors of that assuredly did. It's totally insane. And implementing it for a software emulation of that specification built on top of a twos complement binary integer model is insanity squared. But promises are promises and mere insanity is not in itself an obstacle to political success .... I shall attempt to forget that I ever asked the question :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
