I'm not sure about everyone's idea on this, but Backward Compatibility is a Good Thing(tm). Why don't we just say: 1/2 == 0 1//2 == 0.5 Troy -----Original Message----- From: Steve Drees [mailto:drees@the-bridge.net] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:56 AM To: Dieter Maurer; Chris Withers Cc: marc lindahl; zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] Future watch: how will python division change affectzope?

Chris Withers writes:

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marc lindahl wrote:

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To me this sounds like a huge mistake -- it's a different

escalation rule

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than any other language.

Go to agree with that. What are the reasons _for_ doing this? Most people without knowledge of "C" derived programming languages are astonished that "1/2" can be "0".

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. _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )