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

[Michael Abbott]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> wrote in 
news:slrn.pl.9m9voo.gs8.qrczak at qrnik.zagroda:

> 
> The reason of the unusual behavior of ** is simple: there are about
> four operations artificially folded into one operator.
> 
> - Raising an element of a ring (or even associative group) to a
>   nonnegative integer exponent. 
> 
> - Raising an element of a field to an integer exponent. 
> 
> - Raising a real or complex number to a rational exponent. 
> 
> - Raising a positive real number to a real exponent, or raising
>   a complex number to a complex exponent. 
> 

Nice and helpful analysis!