[Haskell-cafe] Difference between div and /

[Maciej Piechotka]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 22:40 +0200, Jonas Almström Duregård wrote:
> >> One might expect a == (a/b)*b and other common arithmetic formulas to
> >> hold for division?
> 
> > Better not if one's using Float or Double.
> 
> I figured someone would say that :)
> 
> What about this one:
> round (a/b/c) == round (a/(b*c))
> 
> Of course this doesn't work on Integers...
> 

Hmm. C, Java & co.[1] seems to not have this problem. Also having common
division operator is well - useful.

I don't think it would create much confusion. At least no more than IEEE
standard.

[1] By co I mean Ruby, Python, Perl and others. There are no so many
languages that do recognize the difference.
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