Detecting inadvertent use of integer division

Don nospam at nospam.com
Mon Dec 14 04:46:57 PST 2009


bearophile wrote:
> 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, 

Why?

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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