Mark J. Reed wrote: > I realize the above is mathematically simplistic. The > real reason y = x/0 returns an error is because no matter what > value you assign to y, you aren't going to get x back via multiplying > y by 0.
Well, that may be true in math; but there's no reason why it has to be true in Perl6 (using the Math::Perverse module?) Imagine > $b = 7 / 0 .... $b = undef but DivZero(7) but Overload('*' => sub ($rhs) { $rhs==0 ? 7 : .... }) > print $b * 0 .... "7" > print $b * 2 * 0 .... "14" I.e. you can use a runtime property to remember the value that was divided by zero. I'm not sure what the correct syntax is to make that really clean: hopefully the DivZero property could do the Overload. Dave.