[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Mark H. Harris]

On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:24:06 PM UTC-6, Andrew Barnert wrote:
 

> The decision was discussed at the time, and all the pros and cons were 
> hashed out. If you're not willing to read that discussion, your opinion 
> that the change was a mistake is worth exactly as much as that of any 
> individual user who asked for the change.
>

hi Andrew,  I have been studying the python-ideas archive & the python-dev 
archive all
night. I have read hundreds of posts. I am finding something very 
interesting. My proposal
has been coming up (time and again) in different flavors for many years; 
 with all the same
people participating (with all of the very same discussion almost verbatim).

Just for history sake, I thought you might be interested in a blast from 
the past from Raymond
Hettinger in response to Lennart Benschop who made the decimal literal 
proposal in Oct, 2007:

Just for historical context only:

On Oct 26, 1:54 am, Lennart Benschop <[hidden email]<http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=1580823&i=0>> 
wrote: 
> My proposal: 
> - Any decimal constant suffixed with the letter "D" or "d" will be 
>   interpreted as a literal of the Decimal type. This also goes for 
>   decimal constants with exponential notation. 

There's nothing new here that hasn't already been proposed and 
discussed on python-dev.  There were no major objections to the idea; 
however, it will need to wait until there is a good C implementation 
of the decimal module (which is in the works but coming along very, 
very slowly). 

{from the history department} 
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