Division by zero - what happens

[blackcattech]

I can't spot anything in the help files on this, what is the result if you try and divide a float by zero in Swordfish? Does it just automatically set the result to the maximum value a float can hold, or could the result be undefined? I'm not sure if it is worth doing a separate test for when this can happen of if Swordfish deals with it automatically?

[David Barker]

undetermined - you should always code accordingly, that is, your program should always check for zero your "divide by" value if there is any possibility of it being zero. This rule should be applied to pretty much all programming languages, not just Swordfish.