On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 21:10 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote: > Btw. is there any application, where 'quot' and 'rem' are needed? All > occurrences of 'quot' and 'rem' I found in code so far were actually wrong > and should have been 'div' and 'mod'. > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Things_to_avoid#Forget_about_quot_and_rem
quotRem is faster than divMod, and my understanding is that even divMod is arguably broken. http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/download/papers/divmodnote-letter.pdf _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe