Re: [Python-Dev] Unifying decimal numbers.

2005-11-08 Thread Bill Janssen
Might be more interesting to think about replacing ints and Decimal with implicit-denominator rational type. In the HTTP-NG typing proposal, we called this a "fixed-point" type. See Section 4.5.1 of http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/1998/08/draft-frystyk-httpng-arch-00.txt for details. The cur

Re: [Python-Dev] Unifying decimal numbers.

2005-11-08 Thread Josiah Carlson
winlinchu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, Python unified ints and long ints. > For Python 3k, could be introduced a "Decimal" type > (yes, Decimal, the library module!) in place of the > actual float object. Of course, the Decimal type would > be rewritten in C. There is code which relies on st