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update guidance around division by zero #1153

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3. It returns Infinity, -Infinity, or NaN based on sign of the dividend. Given
that Lox is a high level scripting language, I think it would be better to
raise a runtime error to let the user know something got weird. That's what
Python and Ruby do.
Python does.

On the other hand, given that Lox gives the user no way to catch and
handle runtime errors, not throwing one might be more flexible.