Re: Integer division

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On 2012-11-14 11:11 AM, "Philippe Lhoste" <PhiLho@gmx.net> wrote:
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> On 14/11/2012 15:00, Marc Lepage wrote:
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>> I support bit operations and div/mod.
>> // reminds me of comments.
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>
> Not on Lua, of course... ;-)
> // is already used in some languages for integer division. At least Visual Basic, IIRC...
> Of course, not in C-like languages, for the reason stated by Marc. :-)
>
> ÷ is nice, but hard to type. We have already some users grumbling against ~...
> Scala made the choice to allow Unicode operators, but they can be problematic on some old systems, some editors, etc.
> Having ÷ in an _expression_ might look odd... (and might look different in non-ISO8859-1 code pages!).
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What about ./ or /. ? It's not ugly and the presence of a decimal point makes sense to me somehow.