Pep 238 Why new // operator (Non-integer Division)

[Steve Williams]

Courageous wrote:

> >>All these changes make my head spin.  There is more to life than learning
> >>all the fine details in a computer language.  The fewer number of ways to do
> >>something the better.
> >
> >Just because the changes are being made doesn't mean you have to USE them.
>
> This isn't true; the moment you encounter code written by someone else,
> you DO have to use them. This simple principle is the magic of Python
> minimalism, and the primary driving reason why new Python programmers
> can become so effective so fast (IMO).
>
> C//

[ simulated persona = "Kurt Gödel", node #157, max search depth 49%, neural
variance 12.180 ]

           For simplicity's sake I do all my computations in the base-pi number
system. In
           this system pi=10.