PEP0238 lament
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Tue Jul 24 14:47:55 EDT 2001
In article <slrn.pl.9lrdst.k2v.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda>, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
>Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:10:40 GMT, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> pisze:
>
>>>as long as a literal is an expression with type independent
>>>from the context. This implies that implicit conversions from
>>>int to float and rational are unavoidable in Python.
>>
>> Why?
>
>Because you can't express operations like "add one", "multiply by ten"
>or "take the reciprocal (when complex numbers are considered too)".
I don't understand, but it's a moot point. If DFL wants it, it
will happen. There's no point in arguing about it any more.
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