Greg Ewing writes: > With my "no new syntax" suggestion there would be no question here -- > the only way to write it would be > > height = 5 * ft + 4.5 * in
I'm very sympathetic to the "no new syntax" suggestion, but suppose I wanted to know how many cm there are in an in: cm_per_in = 1 * in / 1 * cm Of course that's a silly mistake, but the (sole, IMO) advantage of the original proposal is that you can't make that silly mistake. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/UJPWU4KQCH3HCIVSFC7LUD7PSLC2PFWS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/