Fredrik Johansson wrote:
>
>Are people still positive regarding the idea of merging decimal and
>binary floats into the same type? (Or at least ensuring that they can
>be mixed seamlessly, which should be no problem with decimal literals
>added to the language.)
>
IMO, the free mixing decimal and binary floats is not a good idea.
>Is someone currently working on a faster
>implementation of Decimal?
>
It is a topic for the Iceland Sprint and on the project list for the
Summer of Code.
>(how many times have you typed/read the
>mind-numbing expression "n%2 == 0"?).
>
>
I write:
if n&1:
handle_odd()
else:
handle_even()
IMO, functions like is_even() and is_odd() are clutter. Also, the
performance of &1 is unlikely to be matched function calls.
>Anyone for PEP-writing? I can think of numerous small changes (and
>ideas too insane to suggest publicly on this list); perhaps a wiki
>page first?
>
>
Better to start with sane ideas like a C implementation of decimal.
When it comes to numerous small changes, it is better to create a third
party extension and see how it fares in the real-world. I suspect that
such a module would be ignored. If that turns out to be true, then it
means that the additions to the standard library are not warranted.
Raymond
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