Pep 238 Why new // operator (Non-integer Division)

[Grant Griffin]

In article <mailman.984811161.25962.python-list at python.org>, "Tim says...
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>[Grant Griffin]
>> BTW, I guess I'm not the first one to notice that this new operator
>> looks an awful lot like a C/C++ comment.
>
>No, you're the first! 329 people did note that // looks an awful lot like
>Fortran's string concatenation operator.  I expect these were the same 329
>who complained to the C++ committee about abusing *their* prior art.

Eureka!--I get it now.  It's designed to make it easier to write Fortran in
Python (er, I mean "Fortran _as_ Python") <wink>

>> So maybe some other symbol should be used.

Now that you mention it, did the previous line inspire "print >>"?

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>Why bother?  Python's # looks an awful lot like C++'s preprocessor directive
>flag too.

Now don't get me start on that: to me, it had looked more like _Perl's_ #!  
(That has too many sharp edges!)

anything-that-python-and-perl-agree-on-can't-be
   -*all*-good-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2

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