Language change and code breaks

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Jul 12 01:36:09 EDT 2001


Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure that the purpose of a//b would be all that evident to a new
> Python programmer

So they'd have to look it up. What's so bad about that?

If Guido is not courageous enough to change the
meaning of /, this seems like a good alternative
plan to me.

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