Norbert Nemec:
And it's the processor design that makes it inefficient to
correct it nowadays.
Python's definition of modulo is far more useful than C's.
Implemented in machine code, however, it takes several
additional commands because the integer division is hardwired
to the C definition. I guess that hardware integer division in
processors became popular only when C was already widely in use.
I see. Thank you for the explanations. So the situation isn't
going to change soon.
Ada language offers both kind of modulus. I think std.math of
Phobos should offer a mod() function that acts like the Python
modulus.
Bye,
bearophile
