proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[Guido van Rossum]

grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

> >The important thing is that i//j will return the same value
> >regardless if i and j ar ints or floats; ditto for the new i/j.
> 
> If that's important, why won't the other math operators do it???

Huh?  They do (apart from unavoidable round-off errors).  1+2 == 1.0+2.0.

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