[Python-Dev] New operations in Decimal (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat May 12 01:46:36 CEST 2007

Terry Reedy wrote:

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> wrote in message

| While I question the sanity of the spec writers in this case, I do trust that | overall, they have provided an extremely well thought-out spec, have gone | through extensive discussion/feedback cycles, and have provided a thorough | test-suite. It is as good as it gets.

I had the same opinion until I saw the logic stuff.

The only rationale I can think of for such a thing is that maybe they're trying to accommodate the possibility of a machine built entirely around a hardware implementation of the spec, that doesn't have any other way of doing bitwise logical operations.

If that's the case, then Python clearly has no need for it.

-- Greg

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