Integer Division operator

[Peter-Jacob]

Now that arithmetic operators are aligned with common conventions (% as remainder instead of //), it appears there is no longer a dedicated integer division operator. Is this intentional, or is there an alternative I’ve overlooked?

gap = 101
new=gap/2
say new  

This produces: 50.5

I am referring to the documented operators:

• Under OPTIONS NUMERIC_COMMON: (which is standard)
  • % performs the remainder operation.
  • / performs integer division if both operands are integers; otherwise, it performs normal division.
  • // is not strickly a valid operator, however, to support legacy code, it is treated as an alias for %.

Given this, I would expect gap / 2 to yield 50 rather than 50.5.

At the moment, I’m using the IDIV assembler instruction as a workaround.