Detecting inadvertent use of integer division

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Dec 14 04:18:57 PST 2009


Don:
> In the opPow thread there were a couple of mentions of inadvertent 
> integer division, and how Python is removing this error by making / 
> always mean floating-point division, and introducing a new operator for 
> integer division.

In Pascal too (and OCaML, but the situation is different) they are separated. I think here having two operators is better, Niklaus Wirth was right again (but I don't know if D can grow another division operator, it's unlikely).

Bye,
bearophile



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