"KennyTM~" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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.
Reserving the only division operator for intdiv-only for the sake of C compatibility would be terrible design.
