Steven Bethard wrote:
> My only fear with the / operator is that we'll end up with the same
> problems we have for using % in string formatting -- the order of
> operations might not be what users expect. Since join is conceptually
> an addition-like operator, I would expect:
>
> Path('home'
I think that everything that can be said aboud __div__() has already
been said. But this argument was really convincing:
[Tony Meyer]
> The vast majority of people (at least at the time) were either +0 or
> -0, not +1. +0's are not justification for including something.
There is no clear consens
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:51 +1300, Tony Meyer wrote:
> [John J Lee]
> > But it's a very readable way to write a common operation. Perhaps one
> > reason the discrepancy you point out doesn't bother me is that
> > division is
> > the least-used of the +-*/ arithmetic operations.
>
> Do you have
John J Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Tony Meyer wrote:
> [...]
> > Well, if you include the much larger discussion on python-list,
> > people (including me) have said that removing __div__ is a good
> > idea. If it's included in the PEP, please at least include a
> > justification and cover th
[John J Lee]
> But it's a very readable way to write a common operation. Perhaps one
> reason the discrepancy you point out doesn't bother me is that
> division is the least-used of the +-*/ arithmetic operations.
[Tony Meyer]
>
> Do you have evidence to back that up?
No. :)
[Ian Bicking]
[John J Lee]
> But it's a very readable way to write a common operation. Perhaps one
> reason the discrepancy you point out doesn't bother me is that
> division is
> the least-used of the +-*/ arithmetic operations.
Do you have evidence to back that up? It seems a strange claim.
Outside of
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Tony Meyer wrote:
[...]
> Well, if you include the much larger discussion on python-list,
> people (including me) have said that removing __div__ is a good
> idea. If it's included in the PEP, please at least include a
> justification and cover the problems with it. The
