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From: sjs@spectral.ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The need for D-scussion (was Re: D Wishlist)
Message-ID: <6128@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 14 Mar 88 17:36:37 GMT
References: <12176@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar11.215238.976@utzoo.uucp> <3732@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <7451@brl-smoke.ARPA>
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In article <7451@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
> In article <3732@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) writes:
> >a function the returns both a % b and a / b at the same time.
> 
> This is the first time I recall in the "D" discussion that an useful
> genuine language feature has been proposed.  All you need now is a
> suitable notation..

How about:
	q = a/b, r = a%b;

It works, it is clean, and any respectable compiler will do the
right thing.