PEP0238 lament

[Andy Salnikov]

"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I think that is wrong, but I use python in a professional capacity. I
> think languages succeed or fail because they work for programmers.

Yeah, completely agree. Personaly, if this change happens, it will be a big
revolt from Python for me. Not only for aesthetic reasons, simply because I
cannot rely on the language which dares to change the meaning of existing
operators. What do you think will be next? Change assignment to work like a
copy, because there are many people confused with the reference semantic? I
almost hear how manager staff saying: "Do you talk about that sh**ty snake
language which changes its rules every year? Don't even think about it in
our project!"

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.

Cheers,
Andy.