Language change and code breaks

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 11-Jul-2001 Nick Perkins wrote:
 >  but why not leave int/int->int alone,
 >  and use // for int//int->float.
 >  
 >  No code breaks, and it is almost as easy for the newbies.
 >  
 >  1/2 -> 0
 >  1//2 -> 0.5
 >  
 >  That way we still have / = div, % = mod,
 >  and we add // = float-divide.

Being in EE, I would immediately interprete a//b as two resistors, a and
b, in parallel. Thus, I would expect 1//2 to return 0.666666...

just-half-joking-ly y'rs
/Mikael

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