[PD-dev] how math objects respond to a bang

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
> 
>>i agree that [clip] should respond to bang. i am not that sure about
>>[atan2]: personally i think that atan2 is a unop (the values are just
>>there for get all 4 quadrants) and the 2nd inlet shouldn't be there at
>>all.
> 
> 
> man atan2
> 
> And then tell me how many args it takes in C. Then try it in Perl, Ruby,
> whatever. It's all the same. It's a two-input operator. So let it behave
> the way two-input operators do.

i do not see how this contradicts my earlier mail.
obviously, "atan2" takes 2 arguments, but they can be seen as parts
(real/imag, nominator/denominator) of _one_ value ("numeric entitiy" or
whatever the math name would be, i dunno)
therefore i (still) think that "atan2" is kind of an unop, even though
it needs 2 values, in any language.
for various reasons (lack of imaginary numbers, history,...), atan2 is
implemented as binop in most (if not all) languages.

a variable "ö" would be written in most prog.languages (except java, but
who writes java...) with 2 letters, even though it is really a single
letter. so what?

mfg.asdr.
IOhannes