Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal construction

2005-05-19 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal construction

2005-05-19 Thread Facundo Batista
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal construction

2005-05-18 Thread Aahz
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