"Imri Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Most experienced programmers know that you shouldn't compare floating | point numbers with ==.
As a general statement, this is wrong. Mark gave examples. Please drop the proposal. The reason for the int division change is the idea that expressions involving integral values should, insofar as possible, have the same value result regardless of the types used to carry the input (or output) values. Hence 1/2 should equal 1.0/2.0 == .5. The idea that 1 == 1 and 1.0 == 1.0 should give a different answer goes against this principle and the 2.x project of number unification. tjr _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
