Which is why newer languages just give you both :p. Zig (for example) has @mod and @rem for modulo and remainder and will complain when you use % on signed inte

Which is why newer languages just give you both :p. Zig (for example) has @mod and @rem for modulo and remainder and will complain when you use % on signed integers because it could be ambiguous and asks you to type in specifically which variant you intended to use.