> Gleam offers division functions that return an error type, and you can use those if you need that check. Yes, but is that what any given developer will reach

> Gleam offers division functions that return an error type, and you can use those if you need that check. Yes, but is that what any given developer will reach for first? Especially considering that an error-returning division is not composable? The language puts people into a place where the instinctive design can cause very dangerous outcome, hard to see in a code review, unless someone on the team is a language lawyer. You probably don't want one of those on your team. I think there's a reasonable argument for gleam to have an operator that does division resulting in zero but at the very least that should NOT be "/"