On Aug 22, 12:04 pm, Derek Martin <c...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:03:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > These human programmers, whether newbies or long-experienced, also deal > > with decimal numbers every day, many of which are presented as a > > sequence of digits with leading zeros — and we continue to think of them > > as decimal numbers regardless. Having the language syntax opposed to > > that is > > ...consistent with virtually every other popular programming language.
If you know anything about Python, you should know that "consistent with virtually every other programming langauge" is, at most, a polite suggestion for how Python should do it. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
