Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] "can only mod ints" message leaves beginners high and dry

[Hans-Bernhard B. <Han...@ph...>]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Just want to let you know that the manual is no help when the user is
> confronted with
> gnuplot> plot x%10
>          can only mod ints
> gnuplot> plot int(x)%10
> but that is not what the user wants. 

It isn't?  And why, pray tell, shouldn't it be?

> Therefore in the manual at
>    (*) Starred explanations indicate that the operator requires integer
>        arguments.
> mention what to do. 

It can't possibly do that --- because it doesn't know what, exactly, is 
the right thing a user should do.