This should be the top comment. INTEGERS are not a field. But that kind of makes the 0 choice worse? Even cpus always throw on integer divide by 0, so i don't r

This should be the top comment. INTEGERS are not a field. But that kind of makes the 0 choice worse? Even cpus always throw on integer divide by 0, so i don't really see the low level optimization. Does it enable some higher level optimization? Why not x/0 = x?