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Subject: RE: Compilers and efficiency
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Michael Turner writes:

>Guy Harris's example (if I remember correctly) was that no language he
>knew of had semantics for retrieving both the integer quotient and the
>remainder from a floating divide ...

You mean like
      0 3.141592654 #: 20
6 1.150444076

???

That's been around for ages.  It's just in a language that not many
people write compilers for (APL).  

Raul Rockwell