Suresh Jeevanandam wrote: > But why not have mutable numbers also in the language.
The short answer I'd give is probably that this is so easy to do with a user-defined class that it's never been all that pressing. > In any application most of the operation is numerical. So, i think, we > should get a good speed advantage with the availability of mutable > numbers. What do you think ? Why do you think this would afford any speed advantage at all? The reason that math operations are potential slow in Python is because it's interpreted; having mutable numerics doesn't change that fact. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis I will always remember / This moment -- Sade -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list