On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>
Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>; Max <abonneme...@revolwear.com
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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.
That sounds like a bug that should be reported to the tracker, at the
very least.
.hc
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