[Python-Dev] Re: Decimal type question [Prothon]

[Raymond Hettinger]

> I am more interested now in hearing about people's feelings on the
idea of
> having the Decimal type "in-between" Int and Float.  Assume a decent
> Decimal implementation is used.

FWIW, Lua used floating point for everything.  With integers upto 53
bits being represented exactly, everything works out fine.  Plus is has
a nice side effect of simplifying the language and underlying code.



Raymond