[storm] Decimal rename

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Sat Nov 24 02:12:06 GMT 2007


Hello Adrian,

> A while back I started a conversation on IRC about the Decimal name 
> conflicting with the Python Decimal type. At some point a call was made for 
> alternate names for the storm type. I had to leave the IRC channel at that 
> time and never got a chance to find out if anything was resolved.  Just 
> dropping a line to see if a change will be made or not.

We won't *change* it for sure, as that'd introduce backward compatibility
issues unnecessarily, but we're not against naming it as something more
sensible and having Decimal as an alias for instance.

OTOH, as you can see in the ticket [1], finding a good name is not as
obvious as it may sound.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/storm/+bug/126171

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