PEP0238 lament

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:10:40 GMT, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> pisze:

>>as long as a literal is an expression with type independent
>>from the context. This implies that implicit conversions from
>>int to float and rational are unavoidable in Python.
> 
> Why?

Because you can't express operations like "add one", "multiply by ten"
or "take the reciprocal (when complex numbers are considered too)".

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