On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:18:12 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... the proposed change doesn't really fix anything, it just gives > different wrong behavior ... :-) > To get started on that, I want to consider how other languages with > rich numeric type systems model them. I'm going to look at a couple of > languages in the LISP family. I'd like to solicit the community for > the names of languages (and pointers to references, if possible!) with > a coherent view of a rich set of numeric types. Go right to the top, Common Lisp. Seek out a paper or on-line copy of Guy L. Steele's _Common Lisp The Language_, 2nd edition. A quick google search says that the "master" online copy at CMU is not working correctly right now. Or start at <http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/FrontMatter/index.html> and click to Chapter 12, <http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/chap-12.html>. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
