[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Apr 6 10:04:08 CEST 2012
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Greg Ewing wrote:
the important thing about a clock that it keeps going forward That would be a strictly monotonic clock, as opposed to merely monotonic.
Well, yes, but even that's not enough -- it needs to go forward at a reasonably constant rate, otherwise it's just as useless. If it had enough resolution, it could go forward by one femtosecond every hour for a while and still call itself strictly monotonic...
-- Greg
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