For the record (and top-quoting, ugh), I regret not putting integer
division into JS back in the day. I would have called it 'div',
though, not '\': 'a div b'. Wirth and his teaching language left old
impressions.
/be
On Mar 5, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Lars Hansen wrote:
I have been pushing for this in the past on several occasions, but
enthusiasm in the WG has been scant, unfortunately. Maybe I
haven't been pushing hard enough.
--lars
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TNO
Sent: 5. mars 2008 14:13
To: es4-discuss@mozilla.org
Subject: New Operator
Is it too late to propose an integer division operator into the
spec? I do quite a bit of WSH programming in both VBScript an
JScript and sometimes its a bit of an irritant during a
translation, it would be nice to see this operator "\" available in
the new ECMAScript instead of having to rely on more inefficient
workarounds:
VBScript:
Dim result
result = 19 \ 4 '(result = 4)
JScript:
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=58799
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