I would prefer the syntax be ‘a mod b’ consistent with my wishlist item:
<https://esdiscuss.org/topic/new-operator> <https://esdiscuss.org/topic/still-waiting-for-integer-division> In regards to semantics: <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/divmodnote.pdf> From: es-discuss <es-discuss-boun...@mozilla.org> On Behalf Of Cyril Auburtin Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 5:07 AM Cc: es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org> Subject: Re: Modulo Operator %% agreed, let's make a proposal On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:06 AM kdex <k...@kdex.de<mailto:k...@kdex.de>> wrote: I would welcome such an operator as well. I find myself implementing a `mod` function from time to time, expressing it in terms of the remainder operator. As for syntax, I don't see `%%` posing any syntactical ambiguities, so I'll second it. On Monday, August 12, 2019 10:00:09 PM CEST Matthew Morgan wrote: > JS needs a modulo operator. It currently has the remainder operator `%` > which works in most cases except for negative values. I believe the the > `%%` would work great and be easy to remember. > > let x = (-13) %% 64; > is equivalent to > let x = ((-13 % 64) + 64) % 64;_______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org<mailto:es-discuss@mozilla.org> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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