Oleg Broytmann wrote:
The article says "decimal" is a synonym. What is the point to use an unknown synonym instead of a well-known word?
His point is that Python has a fixed-point number type called "Decimal", and that this will lead to confusion. I can see his point, but we all know from years of C programming that "%d" takes an int and formats it in base 10--there is no confusion about this. Indeed, I suspect describing this as "denary" would lead to far more confusion, and using the format character "d" to take a Decimal object instead of an int would lead to widespread panic and mayhem. So -0.5 from me.
/larry/
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