PEP0238 lament

[Robin Becker]

In article <cp3d7ngazy.fsf at cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com>, Guido van
Rossum <guido at python.org> writes


....excuses etc elided

the pep no matter how written is still about breaking one of the
traditional arithmetic properties that has been carried into many
computer languages.

I am of the if it ain't broke don't fix it school. As others point out
explicit is better than implicit. int op int --> int is pretty easy to
remember as is the fact that mixed arithmetic promotes the lower
arithmetic operands.

The leadership is wrong on this and not for good reasons.
-- 
Robin Becker