Your colleague is clearly wrong. Seriously, 'coërce the integer five to floating point' vice 'the floating point number 5.0'? Does he also prefer to right int

Your colleague is clearly wrong. Seriously, 'coërce the integer five to floating point' vice 'the floating point number 5.0'? Does he also prefer to right integers as 'int(float(5))'? The mind boggles, it really does.