This has nothing to do with English; frankly, just let a loosely typed language realize just that in it's arithmetic philosophy... those python programmers formerly indoctrinated with Pascal's div and mod operations, for example, might just enjoy a common-sense change consistent with the notion that in 99% of everyday real world math, an integer is just an easy to write notation for a float... I'll stop my rant.. Sean -----Original Message----- From: marc lindahl [mailto:marc@bowery.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 11:40 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Future watch: how will python division change affectzo pe? We're not talking about third graders, we're talking about 7th graders and up - C programmers, C++, Java, even BASIC. They "know" that 1/2==0, but that 1.0/2 == 1/2.0 == 0.5. This is because, mathematically, the numeric representation is really floor(1.0/2.0). These are the people that will be programming Python, not english majors. English is not a programming language.

From: Steve Drees [mailto:drees@the-bridge.net]

Marc & Chris are wrong here. Every 3rd grader in the US knows that 1/2 is not 0. So I would say that (american) english agrees with the proposed new division rules in python.

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