PEP0238 lament

[Stephen Horne]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:53:47 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards)
wrote:

>Right. If you want redesign the language to prevent programmers
>from creating bugs due to using the wrong numeric data types,
>then you're only hope is to eliminate all but one of the
>numeric types, and that numeric data type better do what
>everybody expects all the time.
>
>Can't be done.

But Perl had a good try...

I'm told "1" / 3 gives 0.333333333333333333 <giggles>