Easy way to keeping angles between -179 and 180 degrees

Question

Is there an easy way to convert an angle (in degrees) to be between -179 and 180? I\'m sure I could use mod (%) and some if statements, but it gets ugly:

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Answer 1

Maybe not helpful, but I always liked using non-degree angles.

An angle range from 0 to 255 can be kept in bounds using bitwise operations, or for a single byte variable, simple allowed to overflow.

An angle range from -128 to 127 isn't quite so easy with bitwise ops, but again, for a single-byte variable, you can let it overflow.

I thought it was a great idea many years back for games, where you're probably using a lookup table for angles. These days, not so good - the angles are used differently, and are float anyway.

Still - maybe worth a mention.