Integer division, surprising results

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:
> For example, C99 mandates "the wrong" behavior here (where C89 was
> silent), and for no reason other than "because that's what Fortran did".

This kind of idiocy seems to be all too common. I was
disappointed when Think Pascal changed from the right
way to the wrong way, apparently to be compatible with
some ill-considered Pascal "standard".

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg