How about adding rational fraction to Python?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Feb 29 17:10:45 EST 2008


"Arnaud Delobelle" <arnodel at googlemail.com> wrote in message

| What screws me is that I'm going to have to type p//q in the future.

When I compare that pain to the gain of not having to type an otherwise 
extraneous 'float(...)', and the gain of disambiguating the meaning of a/b 
(for builtin numbers at least), I think there will be a net gain for the 
majority.

tjr






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