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On Sunday, September 6, 2020 at 12:41:04 AM UTC-4 Cade Brown wrote:
> Fair enough, I guess people have managed without it and there are plenty
> of "good-enough" solutions for this that can be used in the place.
>
> I can see it's probably not worth any code breakage for a more 'pure'
> design that ultimately is more of an aesthetic problem than one which is
> preventing real programs from being written
>
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020, 11:02 PM Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 5:21 PM Cade Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> [...] we could spent all day going over particular cases which the repr
>>> -> eval identity doesn't hold. However I still think that, as a principle,
>>> it's a solid one. I think changing the repr of 'inf' to 'float('inf')' is a
>>> decent solution (but keeping str conversion the same).
>>>
>>> So, I guess in order to reduce backwards incompatibility, the repr could
>>> be modified to return a string which actually generates an infinite value
>>>
>>
>> I would assume that there's a lot of code, much of it not written in
>> Python, that has been written to specifically look for this "inf" string.
>> So I don't think we should change it. And making the repr() of floats
>> different from their str() just in this one special case sounds like a bad
>> idea too.
>>
>> I don't think we could fix this one without making 'inf' a builtin
>> constant, and I don't like that option at all. I also don't think this is
>> quite as big a deal as it seems to have become in your head. So please put
>> it to rest. There are many other worthy causes.
>>
>> --
>> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>> *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)*
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>>
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