Language change and code breaks

[Greg Ewing]

Dirck Blaskey wrote:
> 
> It's a problem with expectations and the law of least astonishment.
> Which audience would you rather astonish, and how much?

Depends on what you understand "the problem" to
be. To me, it's the fact that I have to write
something ludicrously convoluted just to tell
Python what sort of division I want to do.
This has nothing to do with astonishment.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,	  
Christchurch, New Zealand
To get my email address, please visit my web page:	  
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg