On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:11:27 PDT, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Are the base number operations in Python all that difficult to
>> understand?
>
>Well, they're a little tricky.
>
>But the basic problem with "number" support, in almost every
>programming language, is that they are too lo
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:40:14 -0400, "Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 06:40 PM 4/25/2007 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>>On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:10:23 -0400, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>wrote:
>> >The current ABC prop
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:10:23 -0400, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The current ABC proposal is to use isinstance as the test; Jeffrey
>Yaskin's numbers PEP highlighted the weakness there with a concrete
>example.
>
>If you need to an abstraction less powerful than an existing ABC,
>you're o
