Language change and code breaks

[Thomas Wouters]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:48:10PM +0000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Very good sumary, Terry.  I'm beginning to get second thoughts about
> integer division -- maybe it's better to leave well enough alone, and
> try to fix areas of the language that could really stand some fixing
> (such as subclassing built-in types).

Wow, Terry! Remind me to buy you a beer at the next Python conference, or
whenever we're more or less on the same continent ;) I never was too hot
about the CP4A reason to change int division, and your post not only
reminded my on why, it even made Guido reconsider, and he's been thinking
about it for years! :)

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