[Gambas-user] Math bugs??

[Benoit Minisini]

On Saturday 12 June 2004 17:37, Nelson Ferraz wrote:
> Fabien Bodard wrote:
> > not a bug ... in gambas say : 1/3.0
> > The '.' force gambas to return a float result.
> >
> > By this way gambas take less ressources.
>
> This trick can be useful in many arithmetic operations, but should be
> disabled when the expression involves a float division. That's why we
> have the backslash division (1\3).
>
> "Premature optimisation is the root of all evil in programming".
>

Yes, but this is not an optimization. This is how work all operators in 
Gambas: /, and *, +, -, ...

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Benoit Minisini
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