I'll vote: bad. I don't think non-integer representations of fraction
attributes should be considered valid when expressing as a literal.

On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 14:17 -0400, Ricky Teachey wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:09 PM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 1:14 PM André Roberge
> > <andre.robe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > You can already experiment with this.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks Andre I tried it out and it works great.
> > 
> > Do the appended capital Fs make these numbers look like some kind
> > of hexadecimal representation or is it just me?
> > 
> 
> 
> Actually it just hit me: I don't know if this will be considered a
> big difficulty or not, but currently you can write division
> operations using hexadecimal numbers:
> 
>  >>> 0xF / 0xF
>  1.0
> 
> And this works in Andre's experimental implementation like so for
> fractions of hex numbers:
> 
>  >>> 0xF / 0xF F
>  Fraction(1, 1)
> 
> But it looks... funny. I don't know if is is good or bad. It just is.
>  
> 
> ---
> Ricky.
> 
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> 
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