On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:55:22 -0500 "J. Cliff Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course. That's why I think you ought to spell it 3//4. Nobody gets > confused when a strange operator that they've never seen before does > something unusual. Average Jo off the street looks at python code and > sees 3/4, and immediately thinks "aha! .75!" Show the same person 3//4,
Why do we care what A. Jo thinks? I would hope that A. Programmer Jo would see "int {OP} int" and assume int result. A. Jo isn't going to be debugging anything. If 3/4 ever returned 0.75 in any language I would drop that language. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list