[Guido] > > You know that, but Raymond seems confused. From one of his posts (point > (k)):
[Raymond] > > "Throughout the implementation, the code calls the Decimal > > constructor to create intermediate values. Every one of those calls > > would need to be changed to specify a context." [Facundo] > The point here, I think, is that intermediate Decimal objects are > created, and the whole module assumes that the context does not affect > that intermediate values. If you change this and start using the > context at Decimal creation time, you'll have to be aware of that in a > lot of parts of the code. > > OTOH, you can change that and run the test cases, and see how bad it > explodes (or not, ;). Bingo! That is point (k) from the big missive. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
