> Not sure what the "right" answer is, but I wanted to stick my oar in
to
> say that I think that Decimal has not been in the field long enough or
> widely-enough used that we should feel that the API has been set in
> stone. If there's agreement that a mistake was made, let's fix it!
There is no
On 5/18/05, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure what the "right" answer is, but I wanted to stick my oar in to
> say that I think that Decimal has not been in the field long enough or
> widely-enough used that we should feel that the API has been set in
> stone. If there's agreement that a
On Wed, May 18, 2005, Tim Peters wrote:
>
> I think it shows more why it was a mistake for the decimal constructor
> to extend the standard (the string->decimal operation in the standard
> respects context settings; the results differ here because D(whatever)
> ignores context settings; having a co