Message 104322 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I'd prefer to drop the ExtendedContext completely. Reasons are:

1. _clamp, prec, emin and emax aren't set to IEEE754 values.

2. The use of 'extended' is decNumber specific (see http://speleotrove.com/decimal/dncont.html ). In IEEE754 'extended' has yet another meaning (AFAICS).

I can see that it is awkward to remove it, but if there's consensus I'd be willing to work on a patch.

Making clamp visible sounds fine to me. (Personally, I'd rather have capitals non-visible.)

If we make Decimal{32,64,128} contexts available, we should document exactly how the arithmetic deviates from IEEE754.