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From: Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Zeller's Algorithm
Date: 31 Jul 2002 23:23:46 +0100 (BST)
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In article <kzS19.1$dz5.0@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
Frank J. Lhota <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> wrote:
>> This may be a problem in languages
>> such as C, where e.g. -30 % 7 = -2.
>
>Actually, the C standard does not require that (-30) % 7 == (-2).

I believe it does; that is to say, this was 'fixed' in C99. It seems
likely that the C++ people will pick this up next time round.

-M-