On Oct 1, 6:26 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-01, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finally, arithmetic would become very confusing if there were > > three distinct numeric types; it already causes enough > > confusion with two! > > Scheme says: It's not that bad.
Scheme has prefix numeric operators, so that 1/2 is unambiguously (for the interpreter and the user) a litteral for 'the fraction 1/2'. You can't avoid the confusion in python, as binary operators are infix. Of course, we could create a new kind of litteral. Let's see, / and // are already operators, so why not use /// ? ;) -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
