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From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc `Play Ball!' Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
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Date: 6 Jul 89 21:44:15 GMT
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>	q,r = x/y;

Back in school, we learned a language that allowed this sort of thing.
It may have been the language "Clu", from MIT, but I am not sure.

>>>What languages allow the user to introduce additional operator
>>>symbols?
>> 
>> C++ and Ada.
>
> But I do not believe that C++ or Ada allows one to define
>symbols or symbol combinations as infix operators.

I don't know about C++, but Ada certainly does have this ability:
you simply define a function something like this:

	function "\" (in x, y:integer) returns integer is begin ... end;

modulo my rusty syntax.