On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Matt Sisk wrote:

> I understand that division can be expressed as multiplication, but is
> there any particular reason why division (/) is not overloaded but
> multiplication is for durations? Then you could say:
>
>   $midpoint = ($dt2 - $dt1)/2;
>
> rather than
>
>   $midpoint = ($dt2 - $dt1) * 0.5;
>
> Small thing. Just curious.

Well, division doesn't really work, whether you do it as multiplication or
not ;)

What is half a minute?  How long is half a month?


-dave

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