[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues

Barry A. Warsaw barry@python.org
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:02:54 -0400


>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

    TP> If you run Emacs, get Dave Gillespie's woefully
    TP> underappreciated calc-mode and look up "error forms".  He did
    TP> a pretty thorough implementation of the concept, including for
    TP> transcendentals and complex numbers.

calc-mode comes with XEmacs btw, and I still don't know what does and
doesn't come with FSF Emacs.  calc-mode is (and has been for years)
wonderful even to add a bunch of numbers!  It's nice to hear that Tim
had a hand in it.

-Barry