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

[Stephen Horne]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:53:28 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards)
wrote:

>In article <tclolt053o18f8q0ntb7n4aggitdkmeg4h at 4ax.com>, Steve Horne wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:46:20 -0500, Skip Montanaro
>><skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>>completely foreign to people.  After years of bit rot in their
>>>brains due to calculator crutches they may need a minute to
>>>refresh, that should be all.
>>
>>My calculator supports integers - and not with a second integer
>>button, I just set the mode and it all works happy.
>
>And I'll bet cash money that the "integer divide" key and the
>"float divide" key are one-in-the-same button.  The operation
>is determined by the type of the operands (the "mode").

Oops - I meant "and not with a second divide button".

Been getting pissed off today, and my typing suffers under those
conditions.