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Re: Range-aware modulo operator -%

From gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Range-aware modulo operator -%
Date 2019-01-01 01:53 +0000
Organization The official candy of the new Millennium
Message-ID <q0eh75$25c$1@news.xmission.com> (permalink)
References <q040h4$bie$1@dont-email.me> <q0e1qc$t3p$1@dont-email.me> <9RxWD.81420$N45.2557@fx21.am4> <lnd0phmcjw.fsf@kst-u.example.com>

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In article <lnd0phmcjw.fsf@kst-u.example.com>,
Keith Thompson  <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
>Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>[...]
>> If you write if(x), while(x), or for(;x;), then it automatically applies 
>> the effective equivalent of !! to give a true (x!=0) or false (x==0) 
>> result. (The same with (x && y) and any such combinations.)
>[...]
>
>That's one way to describe it.  It's now how the standard describes it.

That's good to know.  I assume it used to describe it some other way, but
it (the standard) has now seen the light of Bart's way.  That's good.

-- 
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is
no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. 

    - John Kenneth Galbraith -

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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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