Godot: Allow remainder (%) operator to use floats

Created on 17 Mar 2019 · 4Comments · Source: godotengine/godot

Godot version:
3.1

OS/device including version:
Windows 10 x64

Issue description:
While in Python I can have for example 2.0 % 1.01 resulting in 0.99, in GDScript I get this error: Invalid operands 'float' and 'float' in operator '%'.
I know fmod can do this, but this suggestion is to make it more similar to Python.

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rogeriodec

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There's fmod(...) for that and GDScript's intention is not being as similar to Python as possible.

timoschwarzer on 17 Mar 2019

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There's fmod(...) for that and GDScript's intention is not being as similar to Python as possible.

timoschwarzer on 17 Mar 2019

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Gdscript translates to C calls which are not supports such syntax sugar, by doing so we need to write a cumbersome logic for little gain

Chaosus on 17 Mar 2019

Duplicate of #10004.

This was already rejected by @reduz with:

it's not a bug, it's a feature (tm),intended to avoids mistakes. Use fmod() for floats.

And I still think that's the right approach. Having remainder work for both floats and ints can lead to bugs which are hard to debug (like giving you a float as result for an operation where you expected an int), so it's better to be explicit.