On Sat, 2013-11-09, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:08 AM, John von Horn <j....@btinternet.com> wrote: ... >> * Why not allow floater=float(int1/int2) - rather than floater=float >> (int1)/float(int2)? >> >> Give me a float (or an error message) from evaluating everything in the >> brackets. Don't make me explicitly convert everything myself (unless I >> want to) > > As others have said, what you're asking for is actually magic. One of > the rules of Python - one for which I'm not aware of any exceptions - > is that you can always take a subexpression out and give it a new > name:
And it's not just Python: programming languages have been designed that way since at least the 1960s. People are used to analysing expressions inside and out according to rules common for almost all languages. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
