PEP0238 lament

[David Eppstein]

In article <Ew_67.36904$Cy.4360445 at news1.rdc1.az.home.com>,
 "Tim Hochberg" <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:

> Four might be true, but since I don't
> think helps the problems for which PEP 238 was proposed for

So what problems was PEP 238 proposed for anyway?
I still haven't seen even one good example where int/int->float semantics 
is the right thing to do.
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/