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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-May-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > But the reason for using // rather than / is mainly for the *readers*
> > of the code rather than the writer.
> 
> There's no inconsistency that needs special attention.

The point is that "truncating integer division" is not a mathematical
division operation.  It has significantly different semantics to floating
point division.  It makes sense to use a different symbol for different
operations.

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