Against PEP 240

[Hank Fay]

Add xBase (dBase, Clipper, FoxPro) to the list of languages that are wide in
use in business that use BCD representation in memory, and specify floating
point when it is required/desired.

Hank Fay

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"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > I am strongly opposed to the intent of PEP 240. I would prefer the
> > literal floats to remain. Let those that want infinite precision pay the
> > price by adding an 'R' to their literals. This PEP seems purely biassed
> > towards the needs of naive programmers and I feel that is wrong; this
> > whole industry has grown up with the old style (and coped quite well).