Re: Implementation of %

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Gavin Wraith wrote:

> In message <428C6822.1070407@gimp.org> you wrote:
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> > On the other hand changing the behaviour of math.mod
> > to be a modulus instead of remainder operation could
> > subtly break some old code.  Ho hum.
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> The remainder theorem can be articulated in different
> ways...

Again, forgive my newbie impertinence, but mathematics aside, shouldn't 
math.mod and '%' return the same result? Especially since '%' provides a 
performance improvement? That way you can replace math.mod with '%' and 
get a performance boost. And since '%' is new, shouldn't it do what 
math.mod does, rather than vice versa?

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