[Tim and Raymond are slugging it out about whether Decimal constructors should respect context precision]
Tim, I find Raymond's arguments to be much more persuasive. (And that's even BEFORE I read his 11-point missive.) I understood the concept that *operations* are contex-dependent, but decimal *objects* are not, and thus it made sense to me that *constructors* were not context-dependent. On the other hand, I am NOT a floating-point expert. Can you educate me some? What is an example of a case where users would get "wrong" results because constructors failed to respect context precision? (By the way... even if other constructors begin to respect context precision, the constructor from tuple should NOT -- it exists to provide low-level access to the implementation. I'll express no opinion on the constructor from Decimal, because I don't understand the issues.) -- Michael Chermside _______________________________________________ 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
