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Le mar. 18 mai 2021 à 12:43, Ir. Robert Vanden Eynde <robertv...@gmail.com> a écrit : > This thread seems related to the other thread I just answered I don't > find, I wrote "julia" there, hmmm > > Le mar. 18 mai 2021 à 12:41, Stephen J. Turnbull < > turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> a écrit : > >> David Mertz writes: >> > On Fri, May 14, 2021, 4:31 PM Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > >>> 1/2 + 1/3 >> > >> 5/6 >> > >> >>>> 1 / 2 + 1 / 3 >> > >> 0.833333 >> > >> >> > > >> > > I'm sighted. I can see the difference. I suspect a blind person >> using a >> > > screen reader would struggle a lot to spot the difference. >> >> This is a really good point. I think a screen reader that reads out >> whitespace would be really annoying if it were more frequent than, >> say, paragraph breaks. >> >> > However, the existing `/` was given a backwards incompatible meaning of >> > "true division" and the new `//` operator took on floor division. I >> still >> > believe that was the wrong way around. I thought the existing operator >> > should keep the same meaning, >> >> That *would* have been true if str = Unicode didn't break the world. >> But by freshman year in college students expect real division (either >> with a fractional result or a float result). I think it was better to >> cater to that prejudice. (At least that's true here in Japan, where >> few students do programming before they get here, and was true in >> Columbus Ohio a couple decades ago. These are schools where most >> students come from pretty good high schools and the students have >> access to computers to learn programming if they wanted to.) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/TCG5DKNAB3BAJG563IIG6FR5DBZ5ABQL/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> >
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