On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:09:15AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Note: if you call it fraction() instead, it may appeal more to the > educational crowd! (In grade school, we learn fractions; not until > late in high school do we learn that mathematicials call fractions > rationals. It's the same as Randy Paush's argument about what to call > a quarter turn: not 90 degrees, not pi/2, just call it 1/4 turn. :-) +1 on fraction(). +0 on making it a builtin instead of a separate module. (I'm not nearly as worried about adding builtins as I am with adding keywords <wink>) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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