What deadalnix (how did you choose a nickname that is more difficult to
write than your given name anyway?) said was that the definition of %
only makes sense if, for every n and every m:
(n/m)+(n%m)=n
What this means is that, if n/m is rounded up for negative numbers, n%m
must be negative.
Since n/m and n%m are, usually, implemented by the CPU's hardware,
performance dictates that we do whatever it is that the CPU is doing. On
most modern CPUs, n/m rounds up for negative results, and n%m is negative.
So, we can do it your way. This would mean:
1. Losing performance for every division and modulus that *might* be
negative
and
2. Being different than other programming languages out there
or we can do what we're doing.
Shachar
