Don: >You've used Python extensively, I haven't.<
The situation with Python isn't the same of D because Python has dynamic typing, so your operations must always know what they return (and their return type can change when necessary). >in what contexts is / ambiguous or difficult to read?< A silly example, maybe useless for you: auto x = 5 / foo(); >BTW, does Python allow integer division of floating point numbers?< This is how Python2.x used to work: >>> 5 / 2 2 >>> -5 / 2 -3 >>> 5.0 / 2 2.5 >>> 5 / 2.0 2.5 >>> -5.0 / 2 -2.5 This is how Python3.x now works: >>> from __future__ import division >>> 5 / 2 2.5 >>> -5 / 2 -2.5 >>> 5.0 / 2 2.5 >>> 5 / 2.0 2.5 >>> -5.0 / 2 -2.5 >>> 5 // 2 2 >>> -5 // 2 -3 >>> 5.0 // 2 2.0 >>> 5 // 2.0 2.0 >>> -5.0 // 2 -3.0 I am not saying that Python behaviour is the best possible :-) I think I'd like // to always return a int. In Pascal: int / int => float float / int => float int / float => float float / float => float int div int => int float div int => idontremember int div float => idontremember Bye, bearophile
