Re: [q-lang-users] Q 7.2 RC1 Issue 2: Notation

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> John, it would be nice if you (and everyone else who cares about the
> numeric stuff) could once again apply a bit of torture to the
> float/rational/complex arithmetic to see if everything now works as you
> proposed and we discussed. ;-) There have been quite a few changes, so
> I'd really appreciate your feedback.
:c

I'll try to do this in the next few days.  As yet I haven't had a chance
to build RC2 today.

> Therefore one could argue that in Q, following the principle of the 
> least surprise, one should expect that (/) _always_ denotes inexact 
> division and thus 12%1/8 should return 1.5 just like 12/8. This would 
> also be consistent with the behaviour of (^) which also returns inexact 
> values for all combinations of operands.

I prefer this behavior:  % produces exact results always, / produces
inexact results always.  (This implies that (1+2*i)/(3+4*i) is also
inexact.)

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