PEP0238 lament

[David Eppstein]

In article <vpj77.24033$B7.3921711 at ruti.visi.com>,
 grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:

> I don't understand, but it's a moot point.  If DFL wants it, it
> will happen.  There's no point in arguing about it any more.

You're likely right, but if BDFL wants to blur the distinction between 
exact and approximate quantities, I will likely pick a language that better 
matches the way I think.  I would be happier with a language that had no 
floats in it at all than one in which my integers mysteriously turned into 
floats because I forgot to use the different nonstandard operator notation.

Beyond that, I am going to stop participating in this discussion, I don't 
think I have any more to add.
-- 
David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/