proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[John W. Baxter]

In article <mailman.996045152.25643.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters
<tim.one at home.com> wrote:

> [Tim Roberts]
> > The average child's IQ these days is 100.  That is the very definition
> > of IQ.
> 
> Except in Virginia.  Jealous of the rumor that the Tennessee legislature had
> defined pi to be 3 on the nose, the VA legislature defined *every* child's
> IQ to be 120.  The VA school system subsequently saved a lot of money on
> now-useless tests, and by most accounts the kids didn't actually get any
> dumber.  It's also a great source of amusement that the Maryland legislature
> sought to get even by mandating that all its childrens' IQs were 80.
>

That's the news from Lake Woebegone, where all the women are
strong...all the men are good looking...and all the children are above
average.

  --John