proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[David Bolen]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at home.com> writes:

> (IMO -- and attempting to be helpful again) This (and similar
> statements) is rhetorically wrong and counter-productive.  In PEP238,
> you are NOT proposing to delete integer division (and I hope/presume
> you never will), you are NOT proposing to switch it to C's version
> (ditto), nor are you proposing any other substantive change (ditto).
> From a technical viewpoint, you are merely, in Tim's words, proposing
> to change it's spelling, so that future i//j == current i/j, down to
> the very last bit. (...)

Just for clarification, I don't think that's quite right.  // is being
proposed for integer division only.  That is, unlike todays /, using
// with two floats, while still yielding a float, would yield the
floor() of what today's / would have yielded, and thus not the same
"down to the very last bit"

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