Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia is a great idea, but it disqualifies itself for a big portion of its potential consumers

[Scott Jones]

For some reason, my posts are getting sent prematurely!  Continuing:

Since the integer division operator // of Python (2&3) and Lua already 
means something important in Julia, and \ is also taken, I'd like to 
propose \\ as an integer division operator for Julia.
Having to always type \ d i v <tab> in the REPL, and something different in 
Emacs, or write things out as `div(a, b)` (6 characters typed!), is rather 
annoying, \\ is just a syntax error currently in Julia
and could easily be added to the parser and made a synonym to div (÷).