On 12 January 2017 at 12:07, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 January 2017 at 20:30, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's unlikely that there's a practical suggestion here that hasn't >> been discussed before and rejected > > There's one practical decimal-literal-related suggestion which hasn't > been rejected yet: adding a true decimal literal based on decimal128 > semantics *without* configurable context support (so compile time > constant folding can work normally rather than all operations needing > to be deferred to runtime).
AIUI, this would be an explicit decimal literal, something like 1.5D, rather than simply making all *existing* float literals decimal. Which isn't what I understood the OP to be asking for. Anyway, the OP needs to clarify. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
