On Feb 26, 9:08 am, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:45:45 -0800 (PST) > > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 9:29 am, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If 3/4 ever returned 0.75 in any language I would drop that language. > > > Have fun dropping Python, then, chief. Integer division with / is > > already deprecated, can be disabled ever since Python 2.4, and will be > > wholly removed in Python 3.0. > > I have not been following Python development that closely lately so I > was not aware of that. I guess I won't be going to Python 3 then. It's > great that Python wants to attract young, new programmers. Too bad > about us old farts I guess.
Why resign yourself to being old? Why not stay young and envigorated by learning the new features? How many times have you said "if I knew then what I know now...". Well, here's your chance. I'm looking forwards to it. > > How soon before 2.x is completely deprecated and I have to become a > Walmart greeter? Personally, I plan to drop Python if support for the gmpy module ever dries up. But I won't be a quitter, just have to start using C which will suck the life out of the room. But what else can I do? > > -- > D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three > wolveshttp://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
