Hi Paul, I would be fine with a new division operator or fraction literal as well, and in the beginning this is what I actually wanted to propose.
But then I started prototyping, and given that it is not so easy to change the parser, I just changed the normal division operator. And interestingly, nearly nothing broke. The biggest compatibility problem I actually experienced was the completely unrelated breaking of PyCode_New in recent commits of CPython, which made using cython and thus numpy impossible. That was so hard to tackle I actually gave up and simply branched of an older version of CPython. What I want to say with that is: we are happily breaking compatibility for more minor stuff. I think my proposal would be a major improvement, which would warrant breaking of compatiblity, especially because this break of compatibility is astonishingly small. As said above, I already installed unmodified numpy, sympy, cython and all their tool chains. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZAB5CTTFQ2FOUZQOCYCZZ7EEDJ3P2SPR/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
