On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:19:46 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> Of course we can intruduce a single character function name as an alias >> for the Decimal type constructor, but even then we have to use both >> parentheses and quotes for each and every decimal constant. We cannot >> make it shorter than D("12.34") > > Nor should we. A function or type name should be short but explicit, and > 'Decimal' is about as short as I'd want.
You don't like str, int, float, list, set, dict, or bool? Or for that matter, enum http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0354/ *wink* -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list