Jan. 26, 2008
7:10 a.m.
""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote in message news:47992363.3010402@v.loewis.de... |> If the ambiguity is that 'int' behaviour is unspecified for floats - is | > it naive to suggest we specify the behaviour? | | The concern is that whatever gets specified is arbitrary. There are many | ways how an int can be constructed from a float, so why is any such way | better than the others, and deserves to be the meaning of int()? Decades of usage, in English, with the meaning it already has in Python.