> Even better would be if the compiler caught it and warned you Which is probably what the big compilers do (seems reasonable to expect it) -- I can't really k

> Even better would be if the compiler caught it and warned you Which is probably what the big compilers do (seems reasonable to expect it) -- I can't really know though because the last time I've written code that divides by 0 in an easily provable way is probably a long time ago.