On 22 March 2010 19:32, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think getting this to work would involve a lot of extra code and
> significant 'cleverness'. I'd prefer the simple-to-implement and
> simple-to-explain option of rounding the Fraction before performing
> the operation, even if this means that the whole operation involves
> two rounding operations. It's not so different from what currently
> happens for Fraction+float, or even int+float.
My instinct throughout this discussion has been that
a_decimal + a_fraction
is in effect
a_decimal + a_fraction.numerator / a_fraction.denominator
and as the numerator and denomination can be converted into exact
decimals, my instincts "expect" a double rounding. Anything else
effectively means implementing partial cases of (a+b/c) treated as a
ternary operation.
So I guess I'm +1 on Mark's suggestion.
Paul.
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