Comment on PEP-0238
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Sat Jul 7 19:45:15 EDT 2001
[Tim Peters]
> I want to make a pitch for naming it idiv() instead. The "i" should
> strongly remind that the result is an integer, something "div" says only to
> former Pascal programmers.
idiv suggests FORTRAN to me! :-) I prefer being remembered of Pascal! :-) :-)
And I like the idea of div(), mod() and divmod(): it's clean.
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François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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