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

[William Tanksley]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:55:57 -0400, Frank "Cookie Jar" Lomax wrote:
>    >   To many of us, programmers, 1/2 is 0 with 1 as a reminder:)
>    > We are like children, and any child will say _for sure_ that 1
>    > cookie for two children means one cookie for 1 child and 0
>    > cookies for another:)

>No, 1 cookie for 2 children always means no cookies for either child,
>lots of crumbs for the dog to lick up, and years of therapy for the
>entire family.

_Exactly_ like floating point!  Look at what it did to poor Tim.

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-William "Billy" Tanksley