This seems like what could be a common cause of bugs

[bearophile]

Marco Leise:

> That's why Pascal uses another set of operators for integer divisions,  
> namely 'div' and 'mod', so you can never get into that situation. The  
> above code would have worked and in case step was an integer, the compiler  
> would have complained about not using 'div'. I doubt that we will see  
> these in D - at the end of the day code that is both valid C and valid D  
> must do the same thing, but I never had problems with 'div' and 'mod' and  
> it seems like a good solution.

On this I like the Pascal design better. I think in D2 you can't change how division works. Python2 has done this during its evolution to Python3, but D has to keep some compatibility with C.

But adding an integer division operator to D and later discouraging (with a warning too) the usage of the normal division operator for integer numbers is a possibility (later if you want to port C code to D you see many deprecation integer division warnings. A hypothetical c2d tool based on DMD source is later able to fix your C code ported to D).

Bye,
bearophile