proposed language change to int/int==float (was: PEP0238 lament)

[Christopher A. Craig]

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Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

> Hmm...  PEP 240 proposes that numbers matching the regular expression
> '\d*.\d*' be interpreted as rationals.  Thus "0.5" would be interpreted as
> the rational "5/10" (or perhaps reduced to "1/2").  Using this definition of
> rational literal and your coercion semantics, "4**0.5" would yield a float
> instead of an integer or rational.  Why shouldn't an integer or rational
> base be converted to a rational if the exponent is a rational?

Because 5**0.5 cannot be expressed as a rational.

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Christopher A. Craig <com-nospam at ccraig.org>
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