Re: My wish list

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 03/16/2012 07:51 PM, Egor Skriptunoff wrote:
> 2)
> Frequently both quotient and remainder are needed.
> Let % operator returns pair of values:
> a % b == a-floor(a/b)*b, floor(a/b)

The argument for this is that some architectures have a fast divmod 
implementation. On the other hand, you could do this:

function divmod(q,r)
  local i,f = math.modf(q/r)
  return i, f*r
end

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