Indexing with // is a bit undesirable because 6//3 gets simplified to 2//1 upon construction, and there's no reason to pay the cost of that operation.
With \\, would you worry about confusion from the fact that in a \\ b, a is in the denominator? Especially if it gets called the "integer division operator." One could use ///, but that's starting to be pretty comparable to \div[TAB], and less pretty to read. --Tim On Sunday, April 03, 2016 05:56:26 AM Scott Jones wrote: > 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 (÷).
