[Swift-devel] numeric type(s) in swift.

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> I'm thinking we should have two division operators:
> div - integer division (int, int -> int)
> / - floating point division ( [int|float], [int|float] -> float )

So a patch I have (not yet committed) makes / be floating point division, 
%/ be integer division and %% be mod (rather than %).

(the % prefix on %/ and %% because those two operators are strongly 
related).

No other particularly nice symbols spring to mind.

With that in place, the operator changes you committed work without too 
much change to the language both against the XML development stuff and 
also against the trunk code.

I'd be happy for those to go into trunk now, ahead of the big XML 
expression work.

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