On Tue, 18 May 2021 at 15:16, Martin Teichmann <martin.teichm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Because reality. People would like to write 1/2 * m * v**2 to mean the > obvious thing, without having to think about the details. And there are many > people like this, this is why it shows up on this mailing list regularly. I > have never felt the urge to write two/three * m * v**two.
I'd actually prefer to write (m*v**2)/2. Or (m/2)*v**2. But those wouldn't work, the way you describe your proposal. And I'd be very concerned if they behaved differently than 1/2 * m * v**2... Paul _______________________________________________ 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/YNBWIHH5JB5HT7GILIRJXCBPK432RI3Z/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
