Re: [racket-dev] Racket Questions?

2012-09-17 Thread Neil Toronto
I'll implement `flmodulo' in the math library, which already has `flodd?' and `fleven?'. These things can be tricky to get right; for example, most people wouldn't notice that their implementation is wrong on negative inputs. I'll probably also do `flremainder'. Neil ⊥ On 09/15/2012 12:45

Re: [racket-dev] Racket Questions?

2012-09-15 Thread David Van Horn
On 9/14/12 3:36 PM, Becca MacKenzie wrote: Hello! So a friend of mine just started learning Racket and was wondering if there's a particular reason why the modulo function in racket only takes in integers? He wrote his own mod function to take in other things but he was just wondering what the

Re: [racket-dev] Racket Questions?

2012-09-15 Thread Michael Wilber
For the record, I've always just defined my own modulo when I need it for floats: ; A modulo operator for floats! (define (float-modulo p q) (- p (* q (truncate (/ p q) It doesn't properly handle negative numbers though. David Van Horn dvanh...@ccs.neu.edu writes: On 9/14/12 3:36 PM,