On 4/3/22 22:39, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 14:22, Brian McCall wrote:
>> Related to these questions, there is the question of what to do about mixed systems? > Should 2.54 in / 1 cm evaluate to 2.54 in/cm or should it evaluate to 1? > > I would say that 2.54in/1cm should be equal to 1. Units should > completely cancel out. It seems like the point of this exercise is to *not* have units cancel out -- at least, not unnecessarily. 2.54in / 1 cm should be 2.54in/cm, otherwise multiplying by 5 kelvin will be one of those hard-to-find bugs. Of course, it's actually 2.54cm/in. -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GBMXCK6EMNPXGEYMH3IZVRSAAH7GINVB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
