[Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot (original) (raw)

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 19:45:41 CET 2010

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:26, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't want to let the abstractions of the numeric tower get in the way of the practicalities:  we should modify the abstractions if necessary!  In particular, it's not clear to me that all numeric types have to be comparable with each other.  It might make sense for Decimal + complex mixed-type operations to be disallowed, for example.

Only until a needy user breaks out the duck tape and builds a ComplexDecimal type. ;)

The nature of the beast is more will be added on later. So long as Decimal == complex works right I don't see a problem with Decimal + complex raising an exception.

-- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

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