[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues

[Paul Prescod]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> On Thursday 03 October 2002 02:42 am, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 	...
> 
>>  1///3 --> rational
>>
>>(Okay, a 3-char operator is a bit verbose, but I can't
>>think of anything else that looks division-like just at
>>the moment.)
> 
> 
> 1\3 ... ?

I predict this will be the Perl 6 solution if they run into this problem:

http://www.myfonts.com/Character00F7Style1150.html

Today, it has a certain impractical elegance, which is not usually a 
phrase I associate with Perl.

But a few years from now it may be practical.

  Paul Prescod