On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
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>
> The whole point of providing Decimal is for applications for which float is
> inappropriate. I didn't think I needed to reproduce PEP 327 in my email.
>
> So when a coder choose to use Decimal, it is because float is inappropriate.
> Because float is inappropriate, mixing Decimal and float is inappropriate.
> Having the language coerce implicitly, is inappropriate. All this is in the
> PEP. Note that the PEP actually says that the problem is not doing implicit
> arithmetic (as some have reported in this thread) but in doing implicit
> coercions. In order to do implicit comparisons, one must do an implicit
> coercion. Hence the PEP actually already prohibits implicit comparisons, as
> well as implicit arithmetic.
Well said.
Raymond
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