That's an argument for being more careful with floating point operations, and perhaps not using them as a default numeric value, but it's not what Steele is tal

That's an argument for being more careful with floating point operations, and perhaps not using them as a default numeric value, but it's not what Steele is talking about there. After all `1/10` in Python is still pretty close to one tenth, even if it's not quite there. The question here is whether or not we should assume integer semantics for numerical values.