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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT messages and the not operator (pitfall alert!)
Date: 1996/10/27
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Date: 1996-10-27T00:00:00+00:00
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iMatt, I said

"> Almost anyone (the better they know Ada, the more likely they are to make
> this mistake) will strain to remember the table in the RM that talks about
> negative mods, and, if they remember it right, come up with the answer of 1."


I did not say that 1 was the right answer, in fact the whole point of the
post is that -5 mod 3 has nothing to do with the table in the RM about
negative mods, since this is a simple positive mod, so the answer from
the table is wrong!!!!!!