PEP 240 scares me

[Rainer Deyke]

"Pearu Peterson" <pearu at cens.ioc.ee> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0103222338530.29360-100000 at kev.ioc.ee...
> It is true that 1/2 == 0 surprise new (Python) programmers (but I quickly
> learned to write 1./2 or 1/2. or 1/float(n) etc).
> But making 1.2 to be a rational
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That would be stupid.  '1.2' should be the rational '6/5'.  To write '1/2',
you would actually write '1/2' (possibly with some operator other than '/').
I don't think anybody was arguing differently.


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