----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>; Max <abonneme...@revolwear.com>;
> PD list <pd-list@iem.at>; Shahrokh Yadegari <s...@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] expr alternative
>
> Le 2011-10-25 à 10:45:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
>
>> 2) all the expr objects have a Max-centric view of numbers that clashes
> with Pd's "everything-is-a-float" philosophy. (If you don't
> understand what I mean, matju has written about it on the list and I've also
> documented it in the revised PDDP help patches for expr.)
>
> That's also a current difference between [expr] and [#expr], though it will
> probably not stay completely like that, because GF makes a big point of
> having
> several different number types in grids. So, whenever I write the other half
> of
> [#expr] (add grid processing), it will probably support the 6 number types of
> grids, instead of the 2 of jMax/Max or the 1 of Pd.
> Until then, [#expr] only does floats.
>
> I think that [#expr] will not have ints outside of grids, but I have not
> really
> thought about it yet.
It's worth noting that the current [expr] is both "Max-centric"-- because
numbers
written as integers imply integer math-- and incompatible with Max-- because in
object
boxes Pd strips the decimal from "1." which is a common idiom in Max to force
float math.
Any attempt at a new/improved expr should realize this and just forget being
max
compatible and try to make it as Pd-ish as possible.
-Jonathan
>
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