Re: Division by zero

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"Jeffrey Carter" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> The problem, it seems to me, is that the developer may deliberately
> write a division of a variable by static zero for a number of reasons.
> He may want it to raise Constraint_Error at run time, or may have
> redefined "/" for the type of the variable to do something meaningful if
> the divisor is zero.

Sorry, that doesn't qualify. In my case there was no redifinition
of "/" function. Compiler, of course, knows that since it has to
resolve the reference anyway. So it did know that the "/" in
question was your regular pre-defined division. Since it knows
that, then the only reason to allow that to pass would be for
intentional exception raising. But as someone else pointed
out you can just go ahead and use "raise exception" statement
if you really want that. Basically, it seems to me very hard to
think of a situation where that division would be a bona-fide,
intended thing.