PEP 238 (revised)

[Andrew Koenig]

David> In article <cp4rrz5onj.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>,
David>  Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

>> Here's a completely revised version of PEP 238.  It contains a long
>> motivational section, a clear specification of what will happen, and a
>> discussion of rejected alternatives, a list of open issues, a Q-and-A
>> section etc..  I hope it answers most questions that have been raised
>> about this issue.  I'd be happy to revise it if there are still things
>> unclear.

David> I agree with the previous poster who said to use "quotient" instead of 
David> "floor division".

And I disagree.  "Quotient" suggests to me truncation toward zero,
rather than truncation toward -infinity.

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