Chris Barker - NOAA Federal chris.barker at noaa.gov
Wed Oct 14 00:32:11 EDT 2015

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 I merely worry about what happens if people
> start relying upon the fact that a float annotation 'will handle all
> the numbers I care about' to the forgotten Decimal users such as
> myself.

Well, that's what you get in exchange for "type safety".

Which is exactly why I'm concerned about widespread use of type
annotations. Might as well use a static language :-(

- CHB



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