On 2004-04-16 at 08:50:38, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: > >Nope. I'd be perfectly happy if the modulus operator were spelled "mod" > >instead of %, which has never struck me as particularly intuitive. > > I always saw it as being a funny division sign. See the little slash in > there?
Yeah, I know that's what motivated its choice in C (or was it inherited from B or BCPL?), but the fact remains that it already had a mathematical interpretation that is in conflict with that use - a conflict which is nowhere more evident then in the behavior of dc(1) with k=0 (% = modulus) vs k>0 (% = percentage). -Mark
