<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Tahoma
}
--></style>
</head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>
<br><br><div>> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:12:15 +0200<br>> From: fbar@footils.org<br>> To: hans@at.or.at<br>> CC: pd-list@iem.at<br>> Subject: Re: [PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file<br>> <br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 02:34:30PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>> > <br>> > Then having the patch rely on the "error: float: no method for<br>> > 'symbol'" error that is normally generated in that case. <br>> <br>> Well, it prints an error because there *is* an error in the patch. The<br>> author should never have converted a float to a symbol and expect to<br>> still do float calculations with it. <br>> <br><br>Yes, I think it ought to be up to the external to implement its own symbol-to-float converter since there is no universally valid way of doing it.<br>The same pattern will have different meanings in different context and Pd can't be expected to know what is expected in a specific case.<br><br>Martin<br><br></div> </div></body>
</html>