Tim Peters wrote:
> [Raymond Hettinger]
>> ...
>> My intention for the module is to be fully compliant with the spec and all
>> of its
>> tests. Code written in other languages which support the spec should expect
>> to be transferrable to Python and run exactly as they did in the original
>> language.
> I'm with Raymond on this one, especially given the triviality of
> implementing the revised spec's new logical operations.
After thinking about it some more, I'm also supporting maintaining full
compliance (and withdrawing my suggestion of using a separate subclass
for the logical operands).
Be maintaining full compliance, it should be possible for a developer to
prototype an algorithm using Python's decimal module and then use that
exact same algorithm on any GDS compliant arithmetic logic unit. While
*Python* has the luxury of other means of doing logical operations, an
embedded algorithm with only a decimal ALU available may not be so
fortunate.
Regards,
Nick.
P.S. Spending an hour at work yesterday discussing some of the ways the
bus architecture of a digital signal processor can affect algorithm
performance may have had more than a little to do with my change of heart ;)
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Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia
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