On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:57 PM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> I think you are missing the point I was assuming at. Having a binary/hex > float literal would tempt users to think "I know EXACTLY what number I'm > spelling this way"... where most users definitely don't in edge cases. > That problem has never stopped us from using decimals. :-) > Spelling it float.fromhex(s) makes it more obvious "this is an expert > operation I may not understand the intricacies of." > I don't see why that would be more obvious than if it were built into the language -- just because something is a function doesn't mean it's an expert operation. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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