On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > You have missed my point. What I want is for floats never to be > represented as '.' or ',' notation. That way, when each naive > user writes his or her first program that deals with money, when > they look at their computer manual they will come to the section on > floating point numbers and they will all look like something they > have never seen before. So they will read the section carefully > to see if this is what they want or need, and the section can nicely > say NEVER USE THIS FOR MONEY and they will know they are in the wrong > place.
The problem isn't the decimal separator, though, because floats can have problems even without it (and can have no problems with a decimal separator). If you want to distinguish "computer numbers" from "real numbers", you'd do better to pick a different set of symbols for them - or at least a different numerical base. If all literals were written in octal, people would understand that there's something special going on here. But would that really help? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
