Perl is worse!

Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Fri Jul 28 09:21:08 EDT 2000


On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Paul Duffin wrote:

> 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 ?

Two examples:

1/2 --> 0
2**100 --> Overflow error, while 2L**100 --> the right answe

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Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
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