Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>  float x;
>  int y, z;
>
> int temp; // Only needed to "trick" the compiler
> temp = y / z; // into doing what I want.
>  x = temp;
>
> I don't like this anymore than I like the C style automatic promotions.

As you said, yucc.  For any of you that might be interested, Pascal solves
this in a nice way by having two divide operators, "/" and "div".  "/"
always produces a floating point result, whether performed on integers or
not.  Div always does a integer divide, can only be performed on integers,
and produces a integer result.  This scheme provides both the necessary
information to the compiler and good readability in the source code.


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