Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com>: > Haskell has (almost) what I learnt at school: > > Prelude> let (q,r) = 7 `divMod` 3 > Prelude> (q,r) > (2,1)
Python: >>> divmod(7, 3) (2, 1) > Replace the strange `divMod` with / and we are back to the behavior I > first learnt at school X We never used '/' in school for anything. We used 'X : Y' or '---'. Y Anyway, every calculator in the world produces: 1 รท 2 = ==> 0.5 Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list