[jstimpfle]

Who said that "standard division" is floating point division? Something which is inherently full of surprises, to the point that most programmers can't even explain the mechanism in detail?

> It's more consistent than having / return a completely different result depending on whether one of the operand happens to be 3 instead of 3.0

I'd argue that you should be able to learn a few relatively simple rules that are baked into the language, and which don't change. That's not much to ask considering the value you get out of it.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have lots of people vigorously defending their manually overloaded arithmetic operators, acting on their custom types. And to have class methods overloaded statically (depending on argument types) and dynamically (virtual dispatch). I'm assuming you're not part of that group?

Not saying that it isn't a footgun, though. My recommendation is to turn on warnings and you should be able to catch most of mistakes early.