[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:46:10 +0200

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:51:49PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

What's so hard about rat(2,3) ?

I have to agree with MAL. I know, rationally, why a rational literal (or is it literal rational ?) is desirable, but it feels like clutter and all of the proposed syntactic solutions strike me as bad ideas. I'd much rather have the above (which deals with everyone else's favorite data type and their requests to have builtin support for it at the same time) than a not-quite-perfect way to spell a rational literally.

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