> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark J. Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 2004-04-15 at 19:39:25, Austin Hastings wrote: > > Of course you used for buffers that were not powers of 2. Had they > > been powers of 2, you would have used & or &~. The fact that you > > didn't use a power of 2 is pretty questionable. The dread Unix > > wizards will no doubt have questions for you about this. :-) > > What are you talking about? The biggest use of modulus is in > implementing hashes and when you are implementing hashes you want the > number of buckets to be a prime number, not a power of two.
I'm totally willing to agree with you, Mark. So: A) Do you code hashing algorithms so frequently that you need a special, low-cost-of-access operator built in to the language to support it? Or: B) Could you give up % as an operator in exchange for using, say, infix:mod or mod(n,d) in your hashing code, so that some operation (like hash access, or iteration, or method calls, or some-as-yet-unspecified-thing) that actually does occur on nearly every line of code could use the good character? =Austin
