- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:42:22 -0700
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:39 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Monday 2011-10-10 18:21 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> There are two widely-used definitions of the modulus operator: one >> that keeps negative numbers negative, and one that makes them >> positive. As an example, the expression "-8 mod 5" evaluates to >> either -3 or 2, depending on which definition you use. To be safe, >> some uses of modulus in pseudocode in our modules writes the math as >> "((a mod b) + b) mod b)", which produces the latter answer regardless >> of the definition you use. >> >> Which interpretation should the spec use? > > It should not have a 'mod' operator. See: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Jul/0442.html > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0138.html Ah, indeed. It was still hanging around in the draft, so we'll just remove it completely now. ~TJ
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