Message10174

Author	jeff.allen
Recipients	alex.gronholm, jeff.allen, kaneg, zyasoft
Date	2015-08-07.21:48:40
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1438984121.38.0.516206121805.issue2382@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to

Content
I'll just inject that #2216 and #2090 are relevant here. We decided to convert BigInteger to long in response to those, and in particular the user surprise about expressions that mix Python numeric types with BigInteger. (I think there is still a problem with JSR-223, but that may be a different issue.) I can see the OP's point. It is at least as surprising that BigInteger.valueOf(1).abs() should not evaluate as it was that BigInteger('10') would not compare correctly with an int. Maybe the issue is with when we do the coercion, not whether?

I'll just inject that #2216 and #2090 are relevant here. We decided to convert BigInteger to long in response to those, and in particular the user surprise about expressions that mix Python numeric types with BigInteger. (I think there is still a problem with JSR-223, but that may be a different issue.)

I can see the OP's point. It is at least as surprising that BigInteger.valueOf(1).abs() should not evaluate as it was that BigInteger('10') would not compare correctly with an int.

Maybe the issue is with when we do the coercion, not whether?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2015-08-07 21:48:41	jeff.allen	set	messageid: <1438984121.38.0.516206121805.issue2382@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2015-08-07 21:48:41	jeff.allen	set	recipients: + jeff.allen, zyasoft, alex.gronholm, kaneg
2015-08-07 21:48:41	jeff.allen	link	issue2382 messages
2015-08-07 21:48:40	jeff.allen	create