On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISTM, that the currently proposed output format gives > us this benefit for free (no changes to the parser). The format is already > close to the C99 notation but replaces the 'p' with '* 2.0 **' which I find > to > be both readable and self-explanatory.
There's one other major difference between the C99 notation and the current patch: the C99 notation includes a (hexa)decimal point. The advantages of this include: - the exponent gives a rough idea of the magnitude of the number, and - the exponent doesn't vary with changes to the least significant bits of the float. The disadvantage is the loss of evalability. (Is that a word?) Mark _______________________________________________ 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
