On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Andy Farnell wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:21:09 +0800
Chris McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
Would you consider adding a more generally useful [split] object
I agree this would be a useful core object.
What problems, if any, do you forsee?
Would those outputs implicitly be symbols? Or would we venture
the types in advance like
[split f / f]
to obtain two floats
Turning the symbol 5/7 to a real number
would then be
[symbol 5/7(
|
[split f / f]
| /
[/ ]
|
[number 0.714285]
I think to fit with the Pd type system in general, it should
automatically interpret things into floats and symbols (http://puredata.info/dev/PdDefinitions
):
Pd Manual 2.1.2
"The text is divided into atoms separated by white space."
"Atoms are either numbers or symbols like '+'. "
Pd Manual 2.1.2
"Anything that is not a valid number is considered a symbol."
.hc
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