Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com>:
> Right. Question is, to what extent does "human readable" factor in
> after these criteria?
In the case of Decimal, I think it's fairly clear that
Decimal("123.45")
is the winner overall, since both the type and value are
unambiguous and easily readable, and it's eval-able
to boot.
On the other hand, I see absolutely zero utility in
displaying the tuple-form of the internals.
>From the point of view of using the interactive interpreter
as a desk calculator, it might be slightly more desirable
to see
Decimal(123.45)
but that wouldn't be eval-able. For such use it might be
better to have a special calculator-mode interpreter that
took all numeric literals as Decimal and displayed them
unadorned.
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