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. T -- Real Programmers use "cat > a.out".