Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw
From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix 4gl - no integer arithmetic???
Keywords: jw  broken  lie #6
Message-ID: <489@pan.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 23:34:12 GMT
References: <466@pan.UUCP> <410@infmx.UUCP> <468@pan.UUCP> <5876@columbia.edu> <474@pan.UUCP> <466@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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In article <466@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) writes:
<I just tried this in BASIC, and Mr./Ms. Watson is wrong [E6], unless
<Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0 differs greatly from other BASICs.
<The following program prints "A = 9", not "A = 5" like Jamie claims.
<
<10 LET A = (9 / 5) * 5
<
<Like in Pascal, there is a *different* operator for integer division.

I didn't say that it used the same operator.  I said it was possible,
and it is.  If you are going to insist on this assenine exercise of
numbering what you think are my errors, please stop editing my original
postings, and please make sure that they are in fact errors.

jw