On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Greg Ward wrote:
Gaackk! Why is this even an issue? As I recall, Pascal got it right 30 years ago: / is what you learned in grade school (1/2 = 0.5)
Greg, here's an easy way for you to make money: sue your grade school <wink>. I learned that 1/2 is 1/2. Rationals are a much more natural entities then decimals (just think 1/3). FWIW, I think Python should support Rationals, and have integer division return a rational. I'm still working on the details of my great Python numeric tower change.
Not sure what "alphanumeric" means in Unicode, but I'm sure someone has worried about this.
I think Unicode has a clear definition of a letter and a number. How do you feel about letting arbitrary Unicode whitespace into Python? (Other then the indentation of non-empty lines <wink>) -- Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com