Nick Maclaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tim Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ Many useful answers ] > > Thanks very much! That helps. Here are a few points where we are at > cross-purposes. [snip] > I believe that, using the above approach, it would be possible to > achieve good efficiency with very little C - certainly, it has worked > in other languages.
If I understand you correctly (I apologize if I am not), you are talking about subclassing. Subclassing already has a mechanism and implementation in CPython, both in the Python-language and C-implementation levels. Further, I would expect that everything relating to Decimal's current functionality (contexts, etc.) will be implemented appropriately. If I were to offer any advice to you, it would be to relax for a few months and let the Google Summer of Code project complete. I have faith in Facundo's mentoring capability (in that I have faith in his original decimal implementation), and I expect that the C implementation of Decimal will satisfy the vast majority of your concerns about floating point math and Python. - Josiah _______________________________________________ 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
