Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: > What is the reason to make them quiet for floats other > than backward compatibility?
For me, none. I'll happily agree that, all other things being equal, it's more natural (and more consistent with other languages) to have < correspond to the signaling operation, and in a new language that's probably what I'd go for. But as a *change* to existing behaviour in a language that's been widely adopted for numerical work, the risk of breakage seems to me to outweigh any benefits. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11949> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
