<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3201"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3081" class="">> actually i think that a lot of code to review could be identified with a</span><br clear="none" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3083" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3085" class="">grep for "\bfloat\b", so the chores might not be so horrific.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3201"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px;" class=""><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3201"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3734">I doubt that would find everything, but that's certainly a good starting </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3201"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3735">point if you're interested in pursuing this.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3201"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456701036953_3157"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif" size="2">-Jonathan</font></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, February 28, 2016 6:06 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 02/27/2016 06:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:<br clear="none">>> hmm, what again was wrong with my proposal to distinguish between single<br clear="none">> and double precision externals, allowing to have externals that would<br clear="none">> work on both precisions ("phat")?<br clear="none">[...]<br clear="none">> And that's just a single issue with type punning. I doubt that's the only issue that <br clear="none">> can crop up from changing a data type like this, esp. when a lot of the external <br clear="none">> code seems to assume that t_float would only ever be an alias for float.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">ah, that's a different case.<br clear="none">in my memories katjas conclusion was not so drastic though.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">>> And the only way to tell the zombies from the survivors would be to... *gulp*...<br clear="none">>> actually read external library code.<br clear="none">>> Personally, I'd rather get eaten by a zombie than do that.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">actually i think that a lot of code to review could be identified with a<br clear="none">grep for "\bfloat\b", so the chores might not be so horrific.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">gmards<div class="yqt6180114838" id="yqtfd60585"><br clear="none">IOhannes<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><div class="yqt6180114838" id="yqtfd53662">_______________________________________________<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br clear="none">UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>