On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:37 PM, William D Clinger wrote:

>
> Bradley Lucier wrote:
>> For now, let me just point out
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/msg/32949cdfdda958f8?
>>
>> where either you pulled one over on me that I didn't realize, or you
>> didn't know what MODULO meant in 1996.  I think introducing this
>> operator will make things very much worse.
>
> If I pulled anything over on you, it was by accident.
> I think it's obvious from that 1996 post that I didn't
> know what modulo meant in 1996.

Well, since then I've had more experience with your sense of humor,
which I find a bit quirky; on rereading the post (I don't seem to
have kept the e-mail) I couldn't really tell if you were joking then.

> I'm not sure of your point.  Is it that, if the modulo
> vs remainder distinction was confusing enough to confuse
> me in 1996, the ad hockity of the proposed div and mod
> will be confusing enough to confuse me (and perhaps a
> few other easily confused folk) ten years later?
>
> If that's your point, I concede it.

I don't think you're easily confused; and my point is that if
remainder versus modulo was confusing in 1996 for someone who
implements Scheme, I think the new operators are going to be very
confusing for people who use scheme.

Brad