[m-rev.] Added int:'/'/2 and builtin false/0

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-May-2002, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> If you know what the user was trying to do, and all you are going to do
> is tell them how to do it right, why don't you just accept what they are
> doing in the first place?

Well, actually we don't know what the user was trying to do;
maybe they were trying to do int / int => float.

But the reason for using // rather than / is mainly for the *readers*
of the code rather than the writer.

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