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Okay, Nick; you've got me convinced. For some reason I wasn't really thinking of these methods as alternative constructors---in this light, your arguments about doing the same as new, and about established patterns, make perfect sense.

Looking back at the discussion, Jeffrey looked like he was +/-0 on the change, and Guido was answering a slightly different question (about add instead of constructors); I then took his answer out of context to justify the change :(

So I'll change this back unless there's further discussion.

Sounds good.

BTW I think the next goal should be to reduce the cost of constructing a Fraction out of to plain ints by at least an order of magnitude. I believe this is possible.