How about adding rational fraction to Python?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:55:22 -0500
"J. Cliff Dyer" <jcd at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Of course.  That's why I think you ought to spell it 3//4.  Nobody gets
> confused when a strange operator that they've never seen before does
> something unusual.  Average Jo off the street looks at python code and
> sees 3/4, and immediately thinks "aha! .75!"  Show the same person 3//4,

Why do we care what A. Jo thinks?  I would hope that A. Programmer Jo
would see "int {OP} int" and assume int result.  A. Jo isn't going to be
debugging anything.

If 3/4 ever returned 0.75 in any language I would drop that language.

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