[Python-Dev] Warning about use of long double - what's the correct approach?
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:51:30 -0400
> Guido> That's a longstanding nit: $OPT is used to specify some
> Guido> standard things as well as giving you a hook to override.
> Guido> I think we should introduce a separate variable.
>
> That makes good sense to me. For the purposes of backward
> compatibility, I suppose we shouldn't change OPT as the variable
> people set to tweak settings. I'll create a new BASEOPT variable
> and submit a patch.
OK!
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)