Adewale Oshineye threads on Python's proposed change to integer division, in excellent programming newssite/weblog Lambda the Ultimate's discussion group.
In current Python, 5 / 2 is 2--integer division. People want to change to division of integers yielding a float, so 5 / 2 is 2.5. That will understandably break stuff, so some are suggesting a new // operator for the other division. Anyhow, there are links to the threads there.
Also pointed out in LtU's discussions is this thread from Paul Jensen about this paper by C J Date, called Type Inheritance: Is a Circle an Ellipse?
and mostly occupied with explaining values vs variables in terms of a paragraph of Stroustrup's about circles and ellipsen. It's a bit academic, but then issues of typing and classing mainly are: they don't improve a program per se, only allow a better mental model of it for the programmer. Also, Date's use of emphasis is a bit arbitrary, particularly when he says what he'd replace what of Stroustrup's with.
