[Edu-sig] Re: rationals

[Christopher A. Craig]

"Kirby Urner" <urnerk@qwest.net> writes:

> The only thing that nags is using two symbols instead of one to
> signify a type.  Complex (1j1) and float (1e1) get away with one
> symbol, which is why 3r2 was somewhat appealing (but the r tends
> to get lost).

Technically, you're only using one symbol.  You could specify a
rational with an integral value with just 'r'.

I should have a reference implementation that does this on Sourceforge
by next Tuesday.  

-- 
Christopher A. Craig <list-python@ccraig.org>
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