On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:13:44AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I think so, as consider this question: how do you write a script that
> accepts a user-supplied string (e.g. from a CSV file) and treats it as
> hex floating point if it has the 0x prefix, and decimal floating point
> otherwise?
floa
Yeah, I agree, +0. It won't confuse anyone who doesn't care about it and
those who need it will benefit.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 21 September 2017 at 10:44, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> wrote:
> [Thibault]
> >> To sum up:
> >> - In some specific context, hexa
On 21 September 2017 at 10:51, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> Write a document that proposes some quality metrics. Share it around. Get
> people to like it. If it becomes popular, then people will start to value it
> as a standard for project quality.
And explore the academic literature for research on
On 21 September 2017 at 10:44, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
wrote:
[Thibault]
>> To sum up:
>> - In some specific context, hexadecimal floating-point constants make it
>> easy for the programmers to reproduce the exact value. Typically, a software
>> engineer who is concerned about floating-poin
On 9/20/17 8:37 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:
You can define metrics. But as to what they mean? Well that is the question.
One big problem with metrics is that we tend to measure what we know
how to measure -- generally really not the most useful metric...
As for some kind of PEP or PE
> And that's one of the reasons why the hexadecimal floating-point
> representation exist:
I suspect no one here thinks floathex representation is unimportant...
>
> To sum up:
> - In some specific context, hexadecimal floating-point constants make it
> easy for the programmers to reproduce t
> You can define metrics. But as to what they mean? Well that is the question.
One big problem with metrics is that we tend to measure what we know
how to measure -- generally really not the most useful metric...
As for some kind of PEP or PEP-like document:
I think we'd have to see a draft befo
> On 20 Sep 2017, at 20:02, alexandre.gal...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to everyone for your contribution to my proposal.
>
> @Barry, I agree with you that each organisation needs to integrate the
> "quality process" in their workflow. But before integrate it, this "quality"
> proces
Hi,
Thanks to everyone for your contribution to my proposal.
@Barry, I agree with you that each organisation needs to integrate the
"quality process" in their workflow. But before integrate it, this
"quality" process need to be define, at minimal, i think. I don't think too
this is easy to mea
> > How do we handle different organizational requirements?
> >
> By keeping linting out of the code ( and certainly out of "official"
> python), and in the organization's development process where it
> belongs.
>
> > @pylint([34])
> > @pep([8,20])
> > def f(a):
> > return math.sqrt(a)
>
> Yeac
> How do we handle different organizational requirements?
>
By keeping linting out of the code ( and certainly out of "official"
python), and in the organization's development process where it
belongs.
> @pylint([34])
> @pep([8,20])
> def f(a):
> return math.sqrt(a)
Yeach! But that's just my op
> Quality is something that an organisation and its people need to achieve by
> building appropriate processes and improvement methods into their work flow.
> Trying to be prescriptive will run into trouble for the wider world I suspect.
>
> Many of the maintainability metrics may help a team.
>
Hi everyone
>> Of course, for a lost of numbers, the decimal representation is simpler, and
>> just as accurate as the radix-2 hexadecimal representation.
>> But, due to the radix-10 and radix-2 used in the two representations, the
>> radix-2 may be much easier to use.
>
> Hex is radix 16, not
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