Message 98541 - Python tracker

Message98541

Author	skrah
Recipients	facundobatista, jjconti, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah
Date	2010-01-29.21:47:08
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Yes, indeed 'canonical' can be justified to take an integer, if we interpret the spec as: 'canonical' takes an operand and returns the preferred _decimal_ encoding of that operand. But then 'is_canonical' should return false for an integer, and this would create another special case: Accept an operand and return something meaningful _without_ converting it first. I think this is why I have problems with those two. 'number_class' is less of a problem.

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Yes, indeed 'canonical' can be justified to take an integer, if we interpret the spec as:

'canonical' takes an operand and returns the preferred _decimal_
encoding of that operand.

But then 'is_canonical' should return false for an integer, and
this would create another special case: Accept an operand and
return something meaningful _without_ converting it first.

I think this is why I have problems with those two. 'number_class'
is less of a problem.

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