From: Ellen K. 

Some of my cousins were in town yesterday and we had dinner.   On
learning I program in VB, one of them asked "16-bit or 32-bit"?   I
almost fell off my chair.    She apologized by saying the way I'd been
describing Kaiser, she wouldn't have been surprised to learn I was doing
16-bit there.

I didn't realize integer division was also affected in the way you
describe.   What about Mod?

The biggest thing that surprised me in VB after learning C/C++ was
arguments being passed by reference as the default.  VB7 (the .Net version)
has changed that, now ByVal is the default.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:35:51 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K.  wrote in message
>news::
>> The weird rounding was in VB 5 already, and maybe earlier versions,
>
>Yes! I keep VB3 for nostalgic reasons. VB people used to have mega
>arguments about the fact that VB3 has the "fair" rounding discussed in
>this thread.
>
>Here is a command (first line) and the response (second line) in the
>immediate command window of VB3:
>
>? CInt(1.5); CInt(2.5)
> 2  2
>
>Here, "?" means "print the value of". CInt is
"convert to integer".
>This shows that 1.5 is rounded up, while 2.5 is rounded down.
>
>VB has many mind-boggling features. Integer division (\) is one:
>
>? 1.5 \ 1; 2.5 \ 1
> 2  2
>
>Here we see that integer division cleverly rounds the values BEFORE the
>division. A humble C programmer finds this behaviour quite unfair.
>
>John

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