Re: Range-aware modulo operator -%

Subject	Re: Range-aware modulo operator -%
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
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From	Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Organization	virginmedia.com
Date	2019-01-01 23:54 +0000

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On 01/01/2019 20:48, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> On 01/01/2019 03:06, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
>>>> Perhaps simpler might be to say that operands of if(), while(), for(;;),
>>>> &&, || unary !, need to be either already Bool, or have to be converted
>>>> to Bool.
>>>
>>> Assuming you mean _Bool, no, that's not what they do.  C90 didn't
>>> have a boolean type.
>>
>> I deliberately didn't use _Bool. None of my languages have a boolean
>> type, but the compilers do have one internally, just for this purpose,
>> as something that should be yield by a conditional expression.
> 
> So you think it's simpler to describe it in terms of a type that exists
> only internally in your compiler?  Did you expect the rest of us to know
> what you meant by "Bool"?

You said C90 didn't have boolean types. I'm saying it doesn't matter. 
I'm sure people will easily guess how such a boolean type might work.

I just found it easier to think about the expression A in if(A), 
while(A) etc as requiring a Bool type, even if such a type doesn't exist 
in the language, and even if it doesn't need to be actually evaluated as 
0 or 1 (often code can act directly on condition flags).

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Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-27 21:09 -0500
  Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-27 21:34 -0500
    Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2018-12-28 05:37 +0100
    Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-12-29 16:04 -0500
      Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-29 19:13 -0500
  Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-12-28 03:05 +0000
    Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2018-12-27 21:31 -0600
      Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-12-28 04:20 +0000
    Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-12-27 19:32 -0800
      Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-12-28 04:18 +0000
  Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-28 12:29 +0000
    Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-28 08:10 -0500
      Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-28 10:25 -0500
        Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-28 15:56 +0000
          Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-28 17:26 -0500
            Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2018-12-28 23:45 +0100
        Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-28 11:44 -0500
        Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-28 12:16 -0500
          Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-28 17:08 -0500
            Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-12-28 15:01 -0800
            Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 09:04 -0500
              Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-31 18:07 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 14:22 -0500
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-31 21:05 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 16:32 -0500
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-31 23:43 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-12-31 16:44 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-01 01:06 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-12-31 19:06 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-01 11:32 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-01 12:48 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-01 23:54 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-01 16:09 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-02 00:49 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-01 17:53 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-02 02:36 +0000
                Leader Kiki is not going to like this... (Was: Range-aware modulo operator -%) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-01-02 08:36 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-02 00:38 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2019-01-01 22:40 -0700
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-01-02 12:12 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-01-01 01:53 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-31 16:57 -0500
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-31 22:33 +0000
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-12-31 13:34 -0800
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-12-31 16:43 -0500
                Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2018-12-31 15:20 -0800
  Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Eduardo <abdulai60@gmail.com> - 2018-12-28 07:18 -0800
    Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-28 11:45 -0500

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