[Zope] Future watch: how will python division change affectzo pe?

[marc lindahl]

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.