Perl is worse!

[Alex Martelli]

"Paul Duffin" <pduffin at hursley.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:398178EA.7576E13A at hursley.ibm.com...
> Moshe Zadka wrote:
> >
> > Because numbers are numbers and strings are not. Given, Python's numeric
> > model is not very good.
>
> What is wrong with Python's numeric model ?

What about the silent, implicit, automatic conversion from long integer to
floating point?  It can silently, implicitly, automatically lose an
unlimited
amount of information.  I would not call that "very good"...


Alex