On 2008-Dec-4, at 3:08 pm, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Using "div" instead of "/" should make it pretty clear that you're disposing of the remainder.
I misremembered div vs. idiv, but how standard is it? I know "div" commonly means int division, but not always. On the one hand, some things you just have to learn; on the other, lots of P6 operators have word-names as well as symbols, and "div" is the obvious way to spell "/" (what else would you call it?).
A way to get both [quotient and reminder] in one fell swoop would be nice
Agreed; though having two different operators seems a bit unperlish. Int-div could return two values, but that seems prone to accidentally interpolating unwanted remainders into lists or things like that. Would it make sense to include the remainder as a trait on the quotient? Or return some other special compound type that numifies to the quotient.
-David
