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> On May 21, 2018, at 2:45 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 2018-05-21 22:47 GMT+02:00 Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com>:
> 
>> That's why in Lua we have an unpleasant surprise:
>> - a%m - b%n ~= - b%n - a%m
>> It's looks very weird.
>> That should be an equality as in all other programming languages.
> 
> All? Let's try APL.
> 
>      a←10 ⋄ b←20 ⋄ m←3 ⋄ n←4
>      -a|m-b|n
> ¯9
>      -b|n-a|m
> ¯1
> 

All SANE languages? :)

—Tim