In article <XFMail.20010712083841.mikael at isy.liu.se>, Mikael Olofsson <mikael at isy.liu.se> wrote: >Being in EE, I would immediately interprete a//b as two resistors, a and >b, in parallel. Thus, I would expect 1//2 to return 0.666666... While a Fortran programmer would expect to see character concatenation. -- Clive Page cgp at le.ac.uk