[Python-Dev] decimal.py signals & traps (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Jul 12 17:20:46 CEST 2004

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> writes:

Privatizing the dictionary can still be done but I don't think it is worth adding more methods and slowing everything down with an additional layer of indirection.

Well, there's an argument that this may not be the most natural interface for a C implementation or for an implementation of such things for floats -- but this is an argument involving predicting the future, so probably should be ignored.

Cheers, mwh

-- C is not clean -- the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on. -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp

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