On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:16:20 -0500 "J. Cliff Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I don't think that it is a travesty either. I would also not be so offended if the language treated it that way from the start although I would still have had to get used to it having spent so much time in C and assembler which has natural results. The real problem here is that it is an arbitrary, fundamental change to the way the language works. I would be almost as upset if the change was happening the other way. Note, I use the word "natural" above. Natural is an opinion and that happens to be mine. I am really having a hard time accepting that "TRUTH (tm)" is determined by election. See signature. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list