Darren Duncan wrote:
Following from this, I propose that we have distinct-looking operators (not just multis) that users can explicitly choose when they want to do integer division/modulus or non-integer division/modulus.
I don't know if the following constitutes a problem or not; but the one other instance that I know of where there were type-specific versions of a common operator was the string equality vs. numeric equality. Note that in that case, we ended up with a third "generic equality" operator, for cases where auto-coercing the terms beforehand would kill vital information (such as whether the two terms were, in fact, of different types...). With that in mind, should we be thinking of operator triplets here as well? Namely, integer division (coerce to Int, then divide), rational division (coerce to Num, then divide), and generic division (no coercion; use MMD to resolve)? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
