[Tim] > I'm sorry, but if you mentally reduced everything I've written about > this to "the sole argument", rational discussion has become impossible > here.
Forgive me one melodramatic email. I've laid out my reasoning and understand yours. Crossing light sabers with one such as yourself is of course a foolhardy undertaking. A root difference is that I believe we have both a compliant implementation (using Context.create_decimal) and a practical context free extension in the form of the regular Decimal constructor. A second difference is that you see harm in allowing any context free construction while I see greater harm from re-introducing representation error when that is what we were trying to fix in the first place. The rest is just practicalities and engineering (altering decimal's internals may be a non-trivial undertaking). May the force be with you, 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
