IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > > > > > > What kind of other atom types are you thinking? Like int? I suppose to > > make Pd into a full-fledged programming language, it would be useful to > > be able to support things like 128-bit floats, 32-bit ints, etc.. > >well, yes, but that is not my concern now. >i would rather have that pd's native floating point format to be >settable at compile time, but that is something completely different. > >what i would like to have is more along strings, gem-states,... and >other complex stuff. >i am not thinking about types that can be defined within the pd >environment, but rather outside (in C,...) >
The string/blob patch already allows you to do this. The atom is just a pointer. The application can use the pointer any way it likes. And as I said, I'm still not convinced that it causes trouble for code that doesn't use it. Maritn _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
