[PD] expr alternative

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; Max <abonnements at revolwear.com 
>> >; PD list <pd-list at iem.at>; Shahrokh Yadegari <sdy at 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.


That sounds like a bug that should be reported to the tracker, at the  
very least.

.hc


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