prePEP: Decimal data type

[Batista, Facundo]

Aahz wrote:

#- >#- >2. The value could be of the type:
#- >#- >
#- >#- >       - another Decimal
#- >#- >       - int or long
#- >#- >       - float
#- >#- >       - string 
#- >#- 
#- >#- Also a tuple of int/longs.
#- >
#- >I didn't include that in the prePEP because it seems that the actual
#- >implementation support this just to dec == 
#- Decimal(repr(dec)), for every
#- >Decimal as dec.
#- >
#- >Has any other advantage?
#- 
#- Yes: it means that someone who has numeric values 
#- representing a Decimal
#- does not need to convert them to a string.

Ok. I'll modify the item 2.

.	Facundo