I do agree on this,
for back compatibility reasons,
and also because I find the functionality of doing modulo with floats
useful when creating various ramps and toggles with csound code.
I did check % in python, and it also accepts floats.

best
Oeyvind

2007/5/27, Michael Gogins <gogins@pipeline.com>:
> If the behavior of the % opcode has changed, I think it should be changed back. If coercion to integer is required, that can be done in other ways.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
> >Sent: May 27, 2007 5:58 AM
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> >Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] modulus and floats
> >
> >I believe the modulus operation is defined over integers, so the
> >arguments are coerced to integer before the operation is made.  It is
> >arguable that it should be the same as the C function fmod rather than
> >the operator
> >
> >==John ffitch
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