11-28-2022, 08:23 PM
"QB64 must be changed because Galleon said so" or along those lines, will keep bringing people into this forum who aren't lurkers.
I guess there was a topic just like this one in the forum where he was administrator. Otherwise, but why late in 2022 instead of 1992... I don't get it. And the intent to make it look better, with floating-point dividends?
A mistake to have proposed at all a division remainder function from the C runtime library that could work with floating-point numbers. Only because a few people right now disagree with how one operator works.
Actually I think the plain old division "/" symbol sucks hard for integers and "\" shouldn't be necessary. MOD is actually in the same camp. But I'm not going to campaign for it. "The old man"? LOL find another programming language then that might bear another disappointment. We're supposed to love Fortran while fumbling with numbers in a programming language.
P.S. In the example I took from Wikipedia I was absolutely compelled to use integer division instead of ordinary "/" because with the latter, it produced incorrect whole-number quotients. This is mind-boggling to me, with integers only involved. But one more time, I'm not going to gripe about it and must accept a work-around.
I guess there was a topic just like this one in the forum where he was administrator. Otherwise, but why late in 2022 instead of 1992... I don't get it. And the intent to make it look better, with floating-point dividends?
A mistake to have proposed at all a division remainder function from the C runtime library that could work with floating-point numbers. Only because a few people right now disagree with how one operator works.Actually I think the plain old division "/" symbol sucks hard for integers and "\" shouldn't be necessary. MOD is actually in the same camp. But I'm not going to campaign for it. "The old man"? LOL find another programming language then that might bear another disappointment. We're supposed to love Fortran while fumbling with numbers in a programming language.
P.S. In the example I took from Wikipedia I was absolutely compelled to use integer division instead of ordinary "/" because with the latter, it produced incorrect whole-number quotients. This is mind-boggling to me, with integers only involved. But one more time, I'm not going to gripe about it and must accept a work-around.