Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Matteo Sisti Sette hat gesagt: // Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: > >> conjecture 2 - a PD message is simply a human-readable string that you can >> always "see" by for example [print]ing it, or prepending a "set" and viewing >> it in a message box, and two messages that "appear" identical are identical. > > Yes, this conjecture fails for some kinds of Pd messages. One is the > symbol-float: it's not possible to "see" the difference to a > float-float. Also pointers, which are in Pd for ages (since 1996 or > so), are non-printable in full: You can print their data, but not the > pointer itself. Even if two pointers share the same data, they don't > need to be the same pointers.
Another case where this fails is numbers with over 6 digits, although this is more down to Pd not showing the extra digits (including when saving them): http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-09/042419.html Claude -- http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
