On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Eviatar wrote:
> An alternative would be to make standard Python functions (such as
> count) return Integer objects, but this would make it incompatible
> with vanilla Python.
-1, think of the effort involved, and the performance hit we'd take
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Nils Bruin wrote:
> Python 3's division for integers is quite unsuitable for a computer
> algebra system.
Python 2's division for integers is also quite unsuitable for a
computer algebra system:
>>> 1/2
0
But Sage fixes this:
sage: 1/2
1/2
Since floor divisio
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Simon King wrote:
> Hi pang!
>
> On 18 Jan., 09:52, pang wrote:
>> That would be a greater confusion: we'd have the Sage layer, and
>> underlying that you wouldn't have neither python 2 nor python 3, but a
>> mixture.
>
> Or you could argue the other way around: C
