On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 16:59, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > If naive users are going to use the interpreter as a calculator, they're > going to start off using floats and ints simply because they require > less typing. My idea is to allow a gentle learning curve with Decimal > (and Fraction) without scaring them off with exceptions or excessive > warnings: a single warning per session would be okay, a warning after > every operation would be excessive in my opinion, and exceptions by > default would be right out.
That strikes me as a passive-aggressive way of saying we tolerate it for interactive use, but don't you dare mix them for real programs. A warning should be regarded as a bug in real programs — unless it's a transitional measure — so it might as well be an exception. Don't guess and all that. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ 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
