On Mar 13, 9:56 pm, "Georg S. Weber" <georgswe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > is there already an operator named %% (double-percent)? > Somewhere in Python or its relatives? > > If not, we could have the best of both worlds. Just let act in Cython > % as the corresponding C operator, i.e. -1 % 5 == -1 (to have maximal > speed), and let in Cython %% act as the Python % operator, i.e. -1 %% > 5 == 4 (to have maximal convenience).
It's interesting that this proposal has arisen three times independently; on the Cython, NumPy and Sage lists :-) One problem though is that you'd also need a corresponding operator for truncating division (i.e. -7 // 6 == -2 in Python and -1 in C)... Dag Sverre --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
