Language change and code breaks

[Greg Ewing]

Dirck Blaskey wrote:
> 
> In all the examples cited that show why this is a problem,
> it's not integer division that causes the confusion,
> it's division of integer *literals*.

That's only because the examples have deliberately
been made very concise, to show the essence of
what's going on.

The problem occurs when / is applied to integer
*objects*, which can arise from any number of
sources.

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