Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Sep 24, 6:18 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If there is not now, there could be in the future, and the decimal
authors are committed to follow the standard wherever it goes.
Therefore, the safe course, to avoid possible future deprecations due to
doing too much, is to only do what is mandated.
Makes sense. It looks as though the standard's pretty stable now
though; I'd be quite surprised to see it evolve to include discussion
of floats. But then again, people thought it was stable just before
all the extra transcendental operations appeared. :-)
What got me were the bizarre new 'logical' operations whose addition
were rather nonsensical from a Python viewpoint (though probably
sensible from an IBM profit business viewpoint). With those added, and
with this thread, I have decided that Decimals best be thought of as a
separate universe, not to be mixed with other numbers unless one has
good reason to and understands the possible anomalies of doing so. For
pure finance apps, I would think that there should be little reason to mix.
tjr
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