From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Precedence Rules (was Re: Software vendors not using Ada but C)
Date: 29 Jun 93 04:06:31 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jun29.040631.737@seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In article <20556@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'K
eefe) writes:
>Students who have been taught well about Pascal use the rule
> "Never use i div j or i mod j except when (i >= 0) and (j > 0)."
>I use the same rule in Ada.
>
Amen. And I tell students to avoid Ada's MOD, and use REM instead.
It's even more mnemonic - REM means "remainder." Simple. But not for
Pascal-ers.
Mike
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