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Author	loewis
Recipients	larry, loewis
Date	2012年02月26日.12:05:37
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OTOH, it seems that Guido is very much in favor of hard-coding ns resolution in the API, claiming that expectations of even finer resolution are academic. While I still disagree (the very same argument was brought up for ms resolution ten years ago), I think that practicality beats purity here: people apparently can deal with an fixed scale much better than with a floating one. So it may be better to meet the apparent intuition of the majority than follow the purity route.

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OTOH, it seems that Guido is very much in favor of hard-coding ns resolution in the API, claiming that expectations of even finer resolution are academic. While I still disagree (the *very* same argument was brought up for ms resolution ten years ago), I think that practicality beats purity here: people apparently can deal with an fixed scale much better than with a floating one. So it may be better to meet the apparent intuition of the majority than follow the purity route.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012年02月26日 12:05:38	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, larry
2012年02月26日 12:05:38	loewis	set	messageid: <1330257938.5.0.117670139763.issue14127@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012年02月26日 12:05:37	loewis	link	issue14127 messages
2012年02月26日 12:05:37	loewis	create

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