On 23/09/2014 18:26, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Wolfgang Maier schrieb am 23.09.2014 um 18:38: >> While at first I thought this to be a rather irrelevant debate over module >> private vs public naming conventions, I now think the OP is probably right >> and renaming fractions.gcd to fractions._gcd may be a good idea. > For negative numbers, the "expected" behaviour seems to be unclear, so the > current behaviour is just as good as any, so backwards compatibility > concerns clearly win this fight.
The expected behaviour is not unclear for anyone who takes the mathematical properties of the GCD seriously. It's a shame that Python doesn't. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
