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

[Stephen Horne]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:40:21 -0700, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
wrote:

>Steve Horne <sh at ttsoftware.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>Intellectual decline is not what it used to be ;-) - apparently the
>>avarage childs IQ these days (I forget the exact age range) is around
>>120. Must it's all the TV and video games ;-)
>
>The average child's IQ these days is 100.  That is the very definition of
>IQ.

Not in the case where you compare current childrens performace against
past childrens performance on the same test and using the same
assessment criteria - which was the point.

Of course I was misusing a specialist statistic and I doubt I can even
find the source now, but it was just a joke.