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From: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency
Message-ID: <2400040@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 20:12:18 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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Just for the sake of the record, Pop11 has infix function that does a 
divide & remainder at the same time.  It's called "//" which is kind-of
mnemonic for a divide that has two results.  Pop11 is a dynamically
typed language which supports the Common Lisp model for numbers
(i.e. from integers through rationals & floats to arbitrary precision 
complex numbers.)  So "//" does rather more than was asked for, really.

The previous example of 20 // pi would be written in Pop11 as 
	20 // pi;
the results would be
        1.15044 and 6

Steve