[mercury-users] The Mercury random module

[L. Peter Deutsch]

> It is SO annoying to have to work around unspecified rounding of integers
> (when they may be negative) in languages like C.  This is the best news I've
> heard all month (or week even! :-).

FYI, as far as I know, this problem was first understood and addressed (in
exactly this manner -- by providing the same two different integer quotient
and remainder operations) in the Smalltalk-80 system somewhere around 15
years ago.  Plus ca change....  (And someone will no doubt speak up to let
us know that it had been solved before that, and we Smalltalkers too
reinvented the wheel.)

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