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I rather like supporting short float representation. Given that CPython is adopting it, I'm sure Jython will adopt this approach too as part of a future Jython 3.x release.
- Jim
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
Mark Dickinson wrote:
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Discussion points
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(1) Any objections to including this into py3k? If there's
controversy, then I guess we'll need a PEP.
Big +1Short float repr should be an implementation detail, so long as eval(repr(x)) == x still holds.
(2) Should other Python implementations (Jython,
IronPython, etc.) be expected to use short float repr, or should
it just be considered an implementation detail of CPython?
I propose the latter, except that all implementations should
be required to satisfy eval(repr(x)) == x for finite floats x.
Michael Foord
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