Confessions of a Python fanboy

Tim Rowe digitig at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 20:05:29 EDT 2009


2009/7/30 superpollo <user at example.net>:
> Tim Rowe wrote:

>> Any language that gets any sort of real use has to have. For instance,
>> I love Ada's numeric types (you can specify either the minimum number
>> of significant figures or the maximum delta for a real type, and it
>> will give you a type that satisfies that -- or a compilation error if
>> it can't.  That matches genuine problem domains far better
>
> doesn't the decimal module do some of that too?

Not as far as I can tell, no.

-- 
Tim Rowe



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