----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>; Max <[email protected]>;
> PD list <[email protected]>; Shahrokh Yadegari <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] expr alternative
>
> Le 2011-10-25 à 12:38:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
>
>> 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.
>
> Pd also turns «1.0» (and such) into «1».
>
> However, Pd never strips those things if they get parsed as symbols.
>
> thus [expr 1.0/2] gives 0.5 whereas [expr 1.0 /2] will become [expr 1 /2]
> which
> will give 0.
Right, but that punishes the Pd users by making them use Max notation to force
floating point math, and it confuses the Max users coming to (or porting
patches
to) Pd, who learn Pd's float-centrism then are forced to relearn some
bizarro version of Max number types where spaces matter.
But I wouldn't call that a bug because I can't remember if [expr] claims to be
Max-compatible or not.
-Jonathan
>
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