On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:07 -0700 Miller Puckette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a serious problem -- putting a backwards "pow~" into Pd might > be worse than having none at all. But writing a book that uses "pow" > backwards would be even worse than having one in Pd! Agreed. This is a difficult choice. Since it would be in core how about ^ or ** I need a day to think about this and ideas are very welcome. Remember compactness is an issue in the patch diagrams as they are typeset to tight constraints. > > BTW it's very important for to know. If it changes after I > > publish the book I will hire a bounty hunter to bring me > > the fingers of whoever made the changes :) Hmm, the dark side reveals fears unworthy of a Jedi. Perhaps the fear is for the sanity of students, or of those who will email me every day saying "why doesn't this patch work?" :) My instinct says that clarity and consistency are paramount and if I need to rewrite those parts so be it. We all still have the choice now, so let's make the decision the right one. > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:39:07 -0400 > > marius schebella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > btw, are all pow~ objects reversed? right inlet^left inlet? > > > marius. > > > > > > Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > Did I read that Cyclone is to be incorporated into vanilla Pd? > > > > > > > > Having discovered too late that [pow~] is not part of vanilla > > > > I am about to remove the constraint of using vanilla Pd for > > > > the synthetic sound design book since it is incomplete without > > > > basic mathematical operators. > > > > > > > > andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Use the source > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- Use the source _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list