Guido van Rossum added the comment: > Okay, Nick; you've got me convinced. For some reason I wasn't really > thinking of these methods as alternative constructors---in this light, > your arguments about doing the same as __new__, and about established > patterns, make perfect sense. > > Looking back at the discussion, Jeffrey looked like he was +/-0 on the > change, and Guido was answering a slightly different question (about > __add__ instead of constructors); I then took his answer out of context > to justify the change :( > > So I'll change this back unless there's further discussion.
Sounds good. BTW I think the next goal should be to reduce the cost of constructing a Fraction out of to plain ints by at least an order of magnitude. I believe this is possible. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1682> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
