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

[David Eppstein]

In article <slrn.pl.9m9ug6.gim.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda>,
 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote:

> I don't see the point in the compiler inferring
> whether it managed to get a particular result exact or not.

Well, unless it was part of a more general interval arithmetic package -- 
that could be useful.
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/