Glenn Linderman wrote:
In order to do
implicit comparisons, one must do an implicit coercion. Hence the PEP
actually already prohibits implicit comparisons, as well as implicit
arithmetic.
Not necessarily -- you could compare them as though they
had both been converted to the equivalent rati
On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
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>
> The whole point of providing Decimal is for applications for which float is
> inappropriate. I didn't think I needed to reproduce PEP 327 in my email.
>
> So when a coder choose to use Decimal, it is because float is inappropriate.
On 3/19/2010 4:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Glenn Linderman nevcal.com> writes:
On the other hand, if the default behavior is to do an implicit
conversion, I don't know of any way that that could be turned into an
exception for those coders that don't want or don't like the particular
type
On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Glenn Linderman nevcal.com> writes:
>>
>> On the other hand, if the default behavior is to do an implicit
>> conversion, I don't know of any way that that could be turned into an
>> exception for those coders that don't want or don't like t
Glenn Linderman nevcal.com> writes:
>
> On the other hand, if the default behavior is to do an implicit
> conversion, I don't know of any way that that could be turned into an
> exception for those coders that don't want or don't like the particular
> type of implicit conversion chosen.
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