Comparison with Ruby ?

[Emile van Sebille]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >      Ruby converts small integers and long integers
automatically.
> > JB> Okay, nice for you
>
> No way.  Explicit is better than implicit.  I'd rather NOT
> have such 'automatic' (automagick) conversions anywhere!
>

What *magic* requires my attention between 2147483647 and
2147483648?  I'd rather have a single type for a python
number, and let C do what it needs to do to allow it.

I learned a long time ago to store monetary values as whole
numbers in order to avoid rounding and precision related
problems.  Here, that means that the maximum value a sum of
numbers can have is $21,474,836.47.  On a trial balance
where you add up the debits for the period, even small
companies hit this limit quickly.  This simply means that
all monetary values must be longs and is certainly not a
problem, but I'd much prefer not having to think of it.

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Emile van Sebille
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