Using the backslash character to do decimal division

[Sasino97]

I suggest making the \ character usable to perform decimal division between int, without having to cast them.

Example:

var x = 17 / 2;
var y = 17 \ 2;

x is an int and it contains 8
y is a decimal and it contains 8.5m

[svick]

• Why? 17 \ 2 is only a single character shorter then 17m / 2, but it's much less clear.
• As much as I like decimal, I think double is used much more often. So why should there be special operator just for decimal?
• There aren't many characters that can be easily written on almost any keyboard. I don't think C# should waste one of them on something like this.

[bernd5]

I think with decimal devision he does not mean the type decimal in particular - he means floating-point devision in general.

As far as I understand, he does not want int / int -> int - he wants e.g. int \ int -> double | decimal?.
But you are right - to do such a division we can simply use floating-point literals (like 17m or 17d).

I think it is not worth to introduce such an operator.