"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | The only rationale I can think of for such a thing is | that maybe they're trying to accommodate the possibility | of a machine built entirely around a hardware implementation | of the spec, that doesn't have any other way of doing | bitwise logical operations.
That is what I meant by 'commercial strategy' in my previous post. The IBM site pages mentioned the possibility of a decimal-based processor back when I read it, which was back when the decimal module was being developed. It would fit both their decades of product history and their name (*business machines*). Nothing nefarious, exactly, .. | If that's the case, then Python clearly has no need for it. but think it should at least be discussed whether to add useless functions while somewhat useful functions are being deleted and other useful functions are being denied entry. Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
