[Python-Dev] PEP for adding a decimal type to Python

[Greg Ewing]

Michael McLay <mclay@nist.gov> (by way of himself):

> This was a proposal for a mechanism for mingling types safely.  It was not
> intended as a definition of how decimal numbers should be
> implemented.

Perhaps you could make it clearer in the introduction that
this is the part of the problem your PEP is addressing.

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