PEP0238 lament

[Peter Hansen]

Andy Salnikov wrote:
> Guys, if you really need something returning floats for division, make it
> new operator, I guess everyone could be made happy with 1/2 == 0 and 1//2 ==
> 0.5.

Has anyone suggested the possibility (ugly though it may be) of 
preserving the existing behaviour of / and adding *two* new operators,
which implement float and integer division "correctly", without
breaking any existing code?

(I would really hate this, but I don't exactly like the 
alternatives yet either.)

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