add broadcasting .//

NEWS.md

@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ Library improvements
 
  * `expm1` and `log1p` now support complex arguments ([#3141]).
 
+ * Broadcasting `.//` is now included ([#7094]).
+
  * `String` improvements
 
  * Triple-quoted regex strings, `r"""..."""` ([#4934]).

base/broadcast.jl

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ using ..Cartesian
 import Base.promote_eltype
 import Base.@get!
 import Base.num_bit_chunks, Base.@_msk_end, Base.unsafe_bitgetindex
-import Base.(.+), Base.(.-), Base.(.*), Base.(./), Base.(.\)
+import Base.(.+), Base.(.-), Base.(.*), Base.(./), Base.(.\), Base.(.//)
 import Base.(.==), Base.(.<), Base.(.!=), Base.(.<=)
 export broadcast, broadcast!, broadcast_function, broadcast!_function, bitbroadcast
 export broadcast_getindex, broadcast_setindex!
@@ -304,6 +304,16 @@ function .\(A::AbstractArray, B::AbstractArray)
  broadcast!(\, Array(type_div(eltype(A), eltype(B)), broadcast_shape(A, B)), A, B)
 end
 
+typealias RatIntT{T<:Integer} Union(Type{Rational{T}},Type{T})
+typealias CRatIntT{T<:Integer} Union(Type{Complex{Rational{T}}},Type{Complex{T}},Type{Rational{T}},Type{T})
+type_rdiv{T<:Integer,S<:Integer}(::RatIntT{T}, ::RatIntT{S}) =
+ Rational{promote_type(T,S)}
+type_rdiv{T<:Integer,S<:Integer}(::CRatIntT{T}, ::CRatIntT{S}) =
+ Complex{Rational{promote_type(T,S)}}
+function .//(A::AbstractArray, B::AbstractArray)
+ broadcast!(//, Array(type_rdiv(eltype(A), eltype(B)), broadcast_shape(A, B)), A, B)
+end
+
 type_pow(T,S) = promote_type(T,S)
 type_pow{S<:Integer}(::Type{Bool},::Type{S}) = Bool
 type_pow{S}(T,::Type{Rational{S}}) = type_pow(T, type_div(S, S))

base/exports.jl

@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ export
  .^,
  /,
  //,
+ .//,
  <,
  <:,
  <<,

base/rational.jl

@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ function //(x::Complex, y::Complex)
  complex(real(xy)//yy, imag(xy)//yy)
 end
 
+//(X::AbstractArray, y::Number) = X .// y
+.//(X::AbstractArray, y::Number) = reshape([ x // y for x in X ], size(X))
+.//(y::Number, X::AbstractArray) = reshape([ y // x for x in X ], size(X))
+
 function show(io::IO, x::Rational)
  if isinf(x)
  print(io, x.num > 0 ? "Inf" : "-Inf")

test/numbers.jl

@@ -1776,3 +1776,9 @@ end
 @test widen(BigInt) === BigInt
 
 @test widemul(typemax(Int64),typemax(Int64)) == 85070591730234615847396907784232501249
+
+# .//
+@test [1,2,3] // 4 == [1//4, 2//4, 3//4]
+@test [1,2,3] .// [4,5,6] == [1//4, 2//5, 3//6]
+@test [1+2im,3+4im] .// [5,6] == [(1+2im)//5,(3+4im)//6]
+@test [1//3+2im,3+4im] .// [5,6] == [(1//3+2im)//5,(3+4im)//6]