Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Did you see Mike Cowlishaw's posting where he described why he took our > current position (wysiwig input) in the spec, in Java's BigDecimal, and > in Rexx's numeric model?
Yes, it appears that you have channeled him correctly on that point, and Tim hasn't. :-) But I also found it interesting that, while the spec requires the existence of a context for each operation, it apparently *doesn't* mandate that it must be kept in a global variable, which is the part that makes me uncomfortable. Was there any debate about this choice when the Decimal module was being designed? It seems to go against EIBTI, and even against Mr. Cowlishaw's own desire for WYSIWIG, because WYG depends not only on what you can see, but a piece of hidden state as well. Greg _______________________________________________ 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
