In perl.perl6.internals, you wrote:
>At 09:53 AM 10/8/2001 -0400, Gregor N. Purdy wrote:
>>The thing that's making my brain itch right now is div. We cannot afford
>>to do complicated things to the standard integer division, but you will
>>have noticed that the nicer mod is based on floor-div (where C does
>>truncate-div). Having floor-div (and maybe even ceiling-div) around to
>>build other things out of would be nice (but maybe not nice enough to
>>allocate more builtin ops to -- maybe we could have our first oplib
>>contain an expanded set of numerical ops. I'd like to start thinking
>>and talking about oplibs soon).
>
>Leave division alone at the moment. If someone needs something fancy, they
>can go to full PMC support and code whatever division method they like.
Fine, but for future reference, if you're going to have floor(),
you'll almost certainly want to have ceil(). Otherwise it's sometimes
difficult to handle negative values appropriately.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
