PEP 240 scares me

[Alex Martelli]

"Pearu Peterson" <pearu at cens.ioc.ee> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0103222338530.29360-100000 at kev.ioc.ee...
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> But making 1.2 to be a rational
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> will most definitely surprise new (Python) programmers even more *because*

Nobody's proposing THAT, AFAIK -- 1.2 would be the rational 6/5 (and I
gather the idea is that one uses 1.2e0 to get a float of similar value).


Alex