Re: Did you get confused again? You seem eaily bewildered.

Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

On 2025-04-27, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:

Am 27.04.2025 um 16:43 schrieb Kenny McCormack:

In article <vulcf3$tsqb$1@raubtier-asyl.eternal-september.org>,
Bonita Montero  <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:

Am 27.04.2025 um 15:33 schrieb Bonita Montero:
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The platform with the most comfortable handling of division by zeroes
is Windows. Win32 allows to catch that errors easily, whereas with
Posix it's hard to continue the code in the same function or with
a calling function.

>
#include <Windows.h>

 
Burp!
 

#include <stdio.h>
>
using namespace std;

 
Burp again!  Are you confused about which newsgroup this is?

>
Ignore it it you target a different platform. But it would be nice
if such problems were handleable that convenient in any lanugage.

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Why?  I've -never- needed to handle a divide by zero;  a good programmer
won't let it happen.

>
What does a good programmer do if they are asked to write
a division routine for a run-time library called by other people's
code?
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Or a programming language in which someone else can express a division
whose denominator could be zero?

 
Put a constraint in the documentation for the API specifying that
division by zero is undefined[*] and take the processor fault,
produce the core file and send it to the application developer with
a big sign marked RTFM.

That is fine if you are implementing language like C.  But if
you are implementing language for defining user extentions of
a text editor, you do not want bugs in user code to crash the
editor.

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