Language change and code breaks

[Konrad Hinsen]

"Nick Perkins" <nperkins7 at home.com> writes:

> but why not leave int/int->int alone,
> and use // for int//int->float.
> 
> No code breaks, and it is almost as easy for the newbies.

Sounds like a good idea. Just the existence of two division operators
would help newbies to recognize that there is a nontrivial problem.
And a//b definitely beats (a+0.)/b, which does the trick, but is not
at all evident.

Konrad.
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