PEP0238 lament

Mon Jul 23 17:03:08 EDT 2001

Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:41:18 -0400, Tim Peters <tim at digicool.com> pisze:

>> I think you'll find it's the picking of languages where 1/2 = 0.5 that
>> has to be done carefully - I can think of Pacal, Modula 2, LISP and -
>> taking into account your correction - Perl and JavaScript.
> 
> LISP doesn't belong in that list, but members of the Algol family do.

I don't know about Lisp standards, but in clisp implementation
(/ 1 2) is a rational which is = to 0.5.

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