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[Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering]

In article <606 at poseidon.ATT.COM> ech at poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>
>It's interesting, though, how few languages provide such a "two-valued"
>functions (all right, I can feel the mathematicians cringing.  So few
>languages provide functions with ranges like ZxZ, OK?).  I've seen
>implementations of FORTH, by the way, where the expression
>	a b /%
>for example, divides a by b, leaving a/b and a%b on the stack.  Of
>course, if your favorite flavor of forth didn't provide the /% operator
>("word") you'd just define it...
>

F88 does (define a new data type, define a function which returns it,
possibly overload some operator).


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus