From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-03-25T00:58:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question: 9/5=1 ?

Paul Brannan wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 04:37:40AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>> I guess extension writers should not rely on 1/2 == 0 .
> 
> Do you think this is reasonable?
> 
> What method should I call if I want integer division?

Technically, it looks like you can call 'div', i.e. 9.div(5) will still 
return the standard integer division result. But this is completely 
non-obviously, and I only learned it after digging in the source code.