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 common operation ignore context is > ugly and error-prone).
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! -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "And if that makes me an elitist...I couldn't be happier." --JMS _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
