Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> I assume, the reason is: there is no lossless conversion to float's (and vice > verse). No, I don't think that's the reason (and in fact we _do_ have lossless conversion of floats to Decimal instances). IMO, the reasons are: - it's not obvious what the *type* of the result of some_float + some_other_decimal should be, and - it seems rather likely that any attempt to combine a float and a Decimal instance in this way is a bug, or at least something that hasn't been fully thought through by the developer, so we force the developer to make an explicit conversion For historical discussions, see #1682. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43602> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
