Comment on PEP-0238

[Paul Prescod]

I really don't want to go through this whole argument again (after all,
that's the point of PEPs) but when you were a child, you "just knew"
whether you meant truncating or float division. Python guesses based on
the types of the operands which is a poor choice in a dynamically typed
language that otherwise treats "5.0" as a more verbose alternate syntax
for "5":

for i in range(5.0): 
	print i

If Python were to always disallow integer/float coercion then users
would learn that and life would go on. Instead, it coerces in some
places and not others.
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