[Python-Dev] Re: Decimal data type issues (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Apr 20 10:42:35 EDT 2004

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004, Kevin Jacobs wrote:

Neither. It is well understood that operations on Decimal instances must rely on the context. The idea here is to overflow and round correctly upon instance creation without going through a great deal of additional effort.

Why do you think this is a "great deal" of effort? I still have some trouble understanding why you think this should go into Decimal rather than being an add-on.

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