Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> writes: > On Jul 24, 10:53 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> writes: > > > I know I am flogging a dead horse here, but IMHO, '165', '165.', > > > '165.0', and '165.00' are all valid string representations of the > > > integer 165.[1] > > > > I disagree entirely. Once you introduce a decimal point into the > > representation, you're no longer representing an integer. > > > > (They might be the same *number*, but that's not saying the same > > thing.) > > Fair enough. I never did CS101
Nor I. > so I am looking at this from a layman's perspective. I am happy to be > corrected. The correction I would ask to apply is: If you're to practice programming, you can't expect the necessary fuzziness of a layman's understanding to be sufficient in specifying your program. You need to know the specifics of what it is you're asking the computer to do, and what it is you're *not* asking the computer to do, and the difference between the two. -- \ “It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in | `\ trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.” —Artemus Ward | _o__) (1834–1867), U.S. journalist | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
