IIRC Python had similar reasoning for making floats the default in version 3 instead of integers, which had been the assumption in 1 and 2 when you entered a nu

IIRC Python had similar reasoning for making floats the default in version 3 instead of integers, which had been the assumption in 1 and 2 when you entered a number without a decimal. R always did it that way and Julia still assumes integer, which occasionally trips me up when switching languages.