Future floating point directions? [was Re: floating point in 2.0]

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9g5ks0$2q5h$1 at agate.berkeley.edu>,
Edward Jason Riedy <ejr at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>And Tim Peters writes:
> - 
> - IBM's Standard Decimal Arithmetic Proposal requires user-settable precision
> - (akin to, e.g., x86's "precision control" fpu bits) as part of numeric
> - context, and it's also a puzzle how to work that into Python smoothly.  
>
>It's a puzzle how that proposal fits into anything other than
>Rexx smoothly.

Actually, it fits into Python *extremely* smoothly, thanks to the
wonders of module-level namespaces.  The tricky part is handling it
under threading.
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