Re: Integer division

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 14/11/2012 15:00, Marc Lepage wrote:
> I support bit operations and div/mod.
> // reminds me of comments.

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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