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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	facundobatista, jdunck, lorg, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date	2009-03-21.17:38:05
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Message-id	<1237657089.04.0.176370645377.issue2531@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think "the best we can do" is return valid comparison results between floats and decimals in 2.x. It doesn't make anything worse and it does make something better. Unlike other cross-type comparisons, number-to-number is not an unreasonable thing to do. And, we not obliged to carry that over to 3.x where cross-type comparisons have to be specifically enabled. I believe this is the best solution.

I think "the best we can do" is return valid comparison results between
floats and decimals in 2.x.  It doesn't make anything worse and it does
make something better.  Unlike other cross-type comparisons,
number-to-number is not an unreasonable thing to do.  And, we not
obliged to carry that over to 3.x where cross-type comparisons have to
be specifically enabled.  I believe this is the best solution.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-03-21 17:38:09	rhettinger	set	recipients: + rhettinger, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, jdunck, lorg
2009-03-21 17:38:09	rhettinger	set	messageid: <1237657089.04.0.176370645377.issue2531@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-03-21 17:38:06	rhettinger	link	issue2531 messages
2009-03-21 17:38:06	rhettinger	create