On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:51 -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:39:38 -0500 > "J. Cliff Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> a = 20000 * 20000 > > >>> b = 200000 * 200000 > > >>> type(a) > > <type 'int'> > > >>> type(b) > > <type 'long'> > > A long int is still integral which is the crux of the issue. >
So do you believe that you should not be able to do natural division without explicitly casting ints as floats, or is your concern just that you want to still be able to to integer division simply? For me personally, I'm happy knowing that integer division is still available through the // operator. I'm not offended that other, highly useful forms of division would be given operator status. Granted, I'm not old school like you, but I do appreciate clean design, and typing: float(3)/4 always struck me as an ugly hack to get integers to do something that comes naturally to them--divide into a result outside the set of integral numbers. I agree that integer division is useful and important, but I don't think it's a travesty to support other kinds of division, especially when integer division still has its own operator. Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
