PEP 238 (revised)

[John W. Baxter]

In article <mailman.996261377.20082.python-list at python.org>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at zope.com> wrote:

> I expect that only mathematicians use longs outside the range of
> IEEE double, and they will be wise enough to use //.

I suspect "mathematicians" is the wrong word there...this example would
be more like (sorry...long day and wrong word) "computationalists"...or
do I mean numerical analysts.

  --John