D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't think that it is a travesty either. I would also not be so
>offended if the language treated it that way from the start although I
>would still have had to get used to it having spent so much time in C
>and assembler which has natural results. The real problem here is that
>it is an arbitrary, fundamental change to the way the language works. I
>would be almost as upset if the change was happening the other way.
I feel pretty much the same way. This change in behaviour is likely to be
the sole reason keeping me from switching to Python 3 for a long time.
If the slash (/) operator had always been defined as floating point
division then I would've gotten used to it. Now however, there's no
compelling reason for me to try to adjust to this new behaviour.
Ross Ridge
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