Division considered un-Pythonic (Re: Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!))

[Martijn Faassen]

Huaiyu Zhu <hzhu at rocket.knowledgetrack.com> wrote:
> On 30 May 2000 11:04:50 GMT, Martijn Faassen <m.faassen at vet.uu.nl> wrote:
>>Question: why does nobody complain about the overloading of the '+' 
>>operator? After all, it works on both strings and numbers; and presumably
>>your code will fall apart at unsuspected points as well if you assume it
>>only deals with numbers. :)

> Two points worth considering:
> 1. The int to float conversion is often automatic: sqrt(2)
> 2. a/b produces different results based on type without warning.

Right, as I thought I wrote in the rest of my post. :)

Regards,

Martijn
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