A use for integer quotients

[Tom Jenkins]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> 
> Well, so far the only arguments I've heard come down to
> 
> (1) int/int *ought* to return an int;
> 

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> Attempts to convince the proponents of (1) seem useless -- otherwise
> this thread wouldn't last so long -- so I won't repeat the
> explanation.  Let me add that it has nothing to do with teaching
> Python to newbies -- the problem is a fundamental design bug.
> (Ironically, it dates back to the day, probably in 1991, that Tim
> Peters convinced me that int+float should automatically coerce the int


AH! So its TIM PETER'S fault.  He's a witch! Burn him! Burn him!  He 
changed me into a newt.

well-i-got-better-ly yours
Tom