On Dec 16, 09 05:14, bearophile wrote:
Don:
Bob Jones:
double y = a / double(b);
OK, I misunderstood you. You're completely right. At least my proposal
won't let them slip through silently. I don't think we can do anything
else without silently breaking C compatibility.
A silly idea that may keep C compatibility and avoid that cast: instead of an
integer division operator it can be added a operator that always performs a
floating point division, as:
int a = 5, b = 7;
double y = a \\ b;
(I don't like that much, Pascal is better here).
Bye,
bearophile
Just introduce real fdiv(real, real) (or /fdiv/) if this is the
solution. Works right now without changing the language.
