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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: 2000/11/23
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Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann) writes:

> On 23-Nov-00 Christoph Grein wrote:

> >  There's a common rule: ("Punkt vor Strich" in German) multiplication
> > (* / mod 
> > rem) before addition (+ -), thus this is
> >  
> >       -14 mod 5 = -2**2
> > 
> > You wouldn't fall into the latter trap, would you?
> > 
> > (Hope I'm correct, did not look it up in ARM :-)
> 
> Sorry, but "mod x" always delivers values between 0 and x (x excluded).
> So the result is 1 and not -4.

-14 mod 5 is an unary_adding_operator followed by a term, consisting
of an integer literal, a multiplying_operator and an integer literal.
So Christoph is right. ;-)