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

marc lindahl marc@bowery.com
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 20:40:05 -0400


> From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de>
>> 
>> 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".


...conversely, most programmers (the hardware independent ones!) are
astonished when they find out the overhead involved in the floating point
operation....