On Feb 10, 1:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So why not adopt the Decimal (IEEE 854) as the standard > "float" for Python (if speed is a concern, than a mfloat type may be > introduced, it's a "machine float", it's essentially the "float" of > Python 2.5, operations between a float and a mfloat give a mfloat)? It > can reduce some FP bugs, and avoid those 5.89 + 3.99 = > 9.879999999999999 bugs that puzzle newbies, that are okay in a very > fast low-level language like C++, but probably unfit for a high-level > one :-) > > Bye, > bearophile
Sounds like you've been reading about Cobra... -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
