[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Decimal type question [Prothon] (original) (raw)

John Lenton john at grulic.org.ar
Thu Aug 12 14:47:38 CEST 2004

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:53:31PM -0700, Michael Chermside wrote:

But lots of languages make other choices. The number of languages that have a single numeric type is pretty large... perl comes to mind, but I bet I could list 10 others without too much trouble.

perl doesn't have a single numeric type. Depending on how deep you look into the issue, it has none (only a scalar type), or several (scalars that are assigned integers are integers until they are promoted to float when used floatishly).

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