[Zope] Future watch: how will python division change affectzope?

Steve Drees drees@the-bridge.net
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:55:36 -0500


> Chris Withers writes:
>  > marc lindahl wrote:
>  > >
>  > > To me this sounds like a huge mistake -- it's a different
> escalation rule
>  > > than any other language.
>  >
>  > Go to agree with that. What are the reasons _for_ doing this?
> Most people without knowledge of "C" derived programming languages
> are astonished that "1/2" can be "0".


Marc & Chris are wrong here. Every 3rd grader in the US knows that 1/2 is
not 0.
So I would say that (american) english agrees with the proposed new division
rules in python.