Calin Culianu <calin.culi...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Hi, I'm cculianu, the reporting user.

May I get a link or some background for the motivation for this change? It 
seems to me that there are vague allusions to "Decimal -> int cause problems in 
past", or some such, and I'd like to read the arguments presented as to what 
problems in particular, and how this change fixes those problems.

Mathematically, and by convention in computer science, conversions from 
float-like types -> int are always well defined.  It seems strangely 
un-Pythonic to restrict things in such a way.  I am very surprised by this 
change, quite frankly.  It's the wrong direction to go in, for this language, 
is my intuitive feeling.

Anyway, very curious about what the rationale was for this. Thanks.

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