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From: tk@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Tom Knight)
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Subject: Re: standard extensions
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Date: 28 Feb 91 03:40:38 GMT
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>In article <3381.27c548c3@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:

>What has frosted me about the languages is that the arithmetic
>operators are all single valued.  I usually want the quotient
>and remainder from a division.  I have to tell the compiler to
>give me the quotient and then tell it to give me the remainder.
>It might be smart enough to notice that it gets both of them in
>one machine operation, but if it is, it is only undoing bad language
>design.

Of course Common Lisp has had just such a function since at least the
early 80's.  In fact, you get your choice of how to treat the
dividend... floor, ceiling, or truncate.  But we all know that Lisp
isn't a real language 8-].

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