Re: Re: #22527 [Opn->Bgs]: Modulus returned negative value
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:53:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: #22527 [Opn->Bgs]: Modulus returned negative value | ||
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> Well, Perl can lean the other way as well actually. Try this:
Is there some documentation why the default is as it is?
> You will see it gives you -6. Like I said, it comes down to which way you
> truncate. Programmers tend to think that something like (int)(-3.4)
> should result in -3. If that is what you expect, then I think you also
> have to expect -27%7 to return -6.
Agreed.
- Sascha