PEP0238 lament

[Rainer Deyke]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.995848124.9087.python-list at python.org...
> [David Eppstein]
> > My intuition is that the users who will be surprised that 1/2 = 0 are
> > the same ones who would be bitten by roundoff-error bugs if 1/2 = 0.5.
>
> Anyone using floats will get bitten eventually; ditto anyone using
> rationals, for that matter.  This is a "lesser of evils" thing more than a
> "good vs evil" thing.

"Good" would be a language without built-in support for non-integer numbers,
and therefore no source of confusion.  Those who really need them could use
an extension module.


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