On Dec 16, 09 06:17, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"KennyTM~"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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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.
Just introduce real fdiv(real, real) (or /fdiv/) **if this is the
solution.**
One could also force / to return a real and introduce intdiv().
<off-topic>but if C compatibility is to be broken I'd like to see the
comma operator be replaced instead.</off-topic>
