PEP0238 lament

[Grant Edwards]

In article <cEN67.17775$EP6.4652917 at news1.rdc2.pa.home.com>, Terry Reedy wrote:

>Situation: Python '/' currently overloads and confounds two arithmetic
>operations: whole-number result division and fractional result
>division.  This confuses some people.

That's life.  The foo[] overloads different operations also:
indexing into a sequence, looking up an element in a
dictionary.

What about the other overloaded math operators like "+", "-",
"*"?

Should "/" behave differently from the others?

Personally, I don't think so.

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