writeln double precision

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 10:02:11AM +0000, Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 18:08:43 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> > On 10/23/2017 07:22 AM, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > > [...]
> > The rule is that every expression has a type and 22/7 is int.
> 
> Thanks Ali. Is this for backward compatibility with C? Because, if
> there is a division, a natural/mathematical (not programmatic)
> expectation is to see a a double in the result.
[...]

I have never seen a programming language in which dividing two integers
yields a float or double.  Either numbers default to a floating point
type, in which case you begin with floats in the first place, or
division is integer division, yielding an integer result.


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