On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I think you are missing the point of what I am saying. I am not saying with
we implement a strict duck typing mimicing Ruby or Python.
I think you are missing the point of what I am saying. I am saying that
you are using the wrong words for that.
So in the sense of Pd, anything that can be intepreted as a number
should be. But that's in conflict with having symbols that have things
that can be intepreted as a number. So make Pd consistent, either it
needs to be illegal to have symbols that can be interpreted as a number,
This could break some existing patches.
or maybe symbols that can be interpreted as a number behave like a float
when something is expecting a float.
That's what Tcl and Perl do for ints, floats and strings.
They don't call it duck-typing though, and no-one does.
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