PEP0238 lament
Bjorn Pettersen
BPettersen at NAREX.com
Mon Jul 23 19:30:04 EDT 2001
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paulp at ActiveState.com]
>
> This issue is constantly presented as some sort of dichotomy between
> "regular" programmers" and newbies. But really it is more of a
> dichotomy between those originally trained on typed languages and
> those on dynamically typed languages.
>
> The other languages in the Python category (Perl, Ruby,
> JavaScript, ...)
> all make a different choice for division and the choice is
> uncontroversial. Python is the only one of the languages that has a
> constant battle on the issue.
Ruby seems to be quite in line with (current) Python:
irb(main):001:0> puts 1/2
0
nil
irb(main):002:0> puts 1.0/2
0.5
nil
irb(main):003:0>
-- bjorn
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