Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes: > I don't think it's any more egregious than automatic conversions of > mixed-type expressions, such as 3 + 4.5.
That could also be explicit: float(3) + 4.5, or 3 + int(4.5). > If you don't want your ints automatically converted to floats on > division, then use the integer division operator. 1 // 2 is still 0 > in Python 3. Sure, I do that, but the issue was that 1/2 was confusing newbies who don't understand the different characteristics of int and floating types. If the idea is to change Python to fix this problem in a newbie-friendly way, the right fix is to create enlightment by raising an exception that points out the problem, not sweep it under the rug with an automatic conversion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
