proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at home.com
Wed Jul 25 23:15:55 EDT 2001
"Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote in message
news:cpd76pbpfh.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com...
Just to let you know that you are making some progress ...
> It's not just an aesthetic principle. The currently / behavior is a
> design mistake that needs to be eventually eradicated,
With the metaphysical mists having mostly dissapated, I now agree with
this for Python. I also believe that the similar behaviour of C is
correct for C.
> because it makes writing reliable cood too hard and it makes
writing subtly
> broken code too easy.
This is because of Python's type system, which is considerably
different from C's.
> The only way to do that is to bite the bullet
> -- otherwise Python will still have this problem in 10 years.
Agreed, better now than later.
Terry J. Reedy
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