On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 01:46:50 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Might it make more sense to have a parallel *module* that works with a > different base data type rather than parallel functions within the existing > API? > > That is, if folks wanted to switch to 64-bit nanosecond time, they would > use: > > * time_ns.time() > * time_ns.monotonic() > * time_ns.perf_counter() > * time_ns.clock_gettime() > * time_ns.clock_settime() > > The idea here would be akin to the fact we have both math and cmath as > modules, where the common APIs conceptually implement the same algorithms, > they just work with a different numeric type (floats vs complex numbers).
-1 from me. The math/cmath separation isn't even very well grounded, it just mirrors the C API that those two modules reflect. But regardless, the *operations* in math and cmath are different and operate in different domains (try e.g. ``sqrt(-1)``), which is not the case here. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
