Against PEP 240

[Michael Hudson]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> "Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
> news:9f3sa5$45p$1 at panix6.panix.com...
>     ...
> > >misinterpretation.  As Python's longs "obviously" (to any Pythonista:-)
> > >provide infinite-precision INTEGRAL arithmetic, what Roman was asking,
>     ...
> > C'mon, Alex, you know better than that: longs are unbounded precision,
> > not infinite precision.
> 
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=infinite:
> 
> in·fi·nite (nf-nt)
> adj.
>     1. Having no boundaries or limits.
> 
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=unbounded
> 
> un·bound·ed (n-boundd)
> adj.
>     1. Having no boundaries or limits: unbounded space.
> 
> Feeling picky today?-)

Whatever dictionaries say, there's a difference between "unbounded,
but finite" and "infinite".  Not sure it applies
here, though...

Cheers,
M.

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