PEP0238 lament

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Peters wrote:

> Good thing you stopped before mentioning Perl (yes, 1/2 is 0.5 there)
> -- I'm
> afraid the "mimic other languages" approach requires picking languages
> very
> carefully if you want the illusion of consistency.

Only fairly strongly-typed languages are relevant here.  Perl doesn't
have a concept of types at this level, so 1 and 1.0 and even "1" are all
the same thing.

> By the way, 1/2 is also
> 0.5 in standard JavaScript:

I wouldn't think how JavaScript does things would be a valid defense in
any case.

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