On 2016-05-22, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2016 01:52 am, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On 2016-05-22, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> How is this any better though? Complicated or not, people want to divide >>> 1 by 2 and get 0.5. That is the functional requirement. Furthermore, they >>> want to use the ordinary division symbol / rather than having to import >>> some library or call a function. >> >> That's a circular argument. You're defining the result as the >> requirement and then saying that proves the result is necessary. >> Clearly, people managed when 1/2 returned 0, and continue to do so >> today in Python 2 and other languages. > > I'm not defining the result. 4000+ years of mathematics defines the result.
OK, I'm bored of you now. You clearly are not willing to imagine a world beyond your own preconceptions. I am not saying that my view is right, I'm just saying that yours is not automatically correct. If you won't even concede that much then this conversation is pointless. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
