On 5/26/06, Paul D. Fernhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just like to point out that Python (compared to Smalltalk) > http://www.smalltalk.org/articles/article_20041008_a1.html > has always done division wrong, and the new approach still does division > wrong, IMHO, from a mathematical (not implementation) perspective.
Scheme also has a built in rational number type. There's been some discussion of building that in to Python, but my understanding is that's being left to libraries at this point. We already have any number of Rational Number implementations (I've written a few myself). Adding a new decimal type (different from floating point) became the focus instead (good choice of priorities IMO). Are you subscribed to pydev by the way? You seem inclined to redesign Python in some fundamental way, and that's unlikely to happen as a result of posts to edu-sig. We tend to take Python as a given. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
