Dan Sommers wrote: > Christoph Zwerschke wrote: >> I was wondering whether this should be allowed, i.e. multiplication of >> a sequence with a float. There could be either an implicit typecast to >> int (i.e. rounding) ... > > Explicit is better than implicit.
I already knew using the word "implicit" would provoke that answer... Anyway this would be an argument only against the variant of typecasting a float with a fractional part. But what about the other variant which raises an error if there is a fractional part, but works if the float is actually an exact integer, like the result of 4.0//2. BTW, the multiplication of a sequence with an int does an even more implicit thing: The number is considered to be zero if it is negative. > At least until some future version of python in which math.sqrt( 4.0 ) > returns an integer. ;-) In that version, 4.0//2 would also return an integer... But that is not something I had in mind. -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
