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

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 20:04:22 CET 2010


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote: ..

 If Python were to do something different then a naively translated algorithm from another language would fail.  It's the behaviour that numerically-aware people expect, and I'd expect to get complaints from those people if it changed.

Numerically-aware people are likely to be aware of the differences in languages that they use. I think in this day and age you are more likely to hear from confused Java programmers than from Fortran or even C folks.



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