From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-06-04T21:22:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Floating point division operator /. (or fdiv method)

Hi,

In message "Re: [RCR] Floating point division operator /. (or fdiv method)"
    on 04/06/04, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> writes:

|If I were to worry about backward compatibility, leave / as is (and 
|never use it!).  And then provide specific operators for int and float 
|division.  /. and // aren't too bad.  div and fdiv (as methods, not 
|operators) are not bad either.

Numeric#div does integer division and Numeric#quo does float (or
rational if available) division _now_.

							matz.