Re: [VOTE][RFC] intdiv()
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:54:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [VOTE][RFC] intdiv() | ||
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On 30 Jul 2014, at 18:51, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
> -1 explanation: I don't think %% is clear enough
% returns the 2nd part of the integer division, %% returns the 1st. Surely that makes sense?
> I think the utility of
> having it baked into the language as an operator is pretty minimal
> regardless (I coded a lot of Python for scientific research in a
> previous job, and I don't think I ever used //, and you'd think that's
> the place where you'd use it).
This actually isn’t something I’d expect to see in science. I think it’s more useful in other
fields, like any time you wish to divide into rows (%%) and columns(%).
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Andrea Faulds
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