prePEP: Decimal data type

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.503.1068153003.702.python-list at python.org>,
Jp Calderone  <exarkun at intarweb.us> wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:37:52PM -0500, Aahz wrote:
>> 
>> Both are too inconvenient for casual users.  I think that for the Money
>> subclass, it'll probably make sense to require users to specify an
>> explicit Context before the first operation (raising an exception if not
>> initialized).  For Decimal, using the same defaults as Rexx will
>> probably work just fine.
>
>  That sounds like it would work, if you are forced to specify the context
>on a per-instance basis.  Otherwise, I don't see how two different modules
>which wanted to treat Money differently could ever be used together.

That doesn't make much sense to me.  Can you provide an actual use case?
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