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

[Martin Peach]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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>>Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
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>>>one guy thinks that atan2 is unary but that +,-,* are binary. so what?
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>>wow. it seems like i really made it into (another) flame war.
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>Instead of arguing about this, what about using expr to do atan2? It
>accepts a bang as shown in attached patch and is more readable anyway
>IMO.
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You could do it the tcl way and use expr for every non-symbol operation.
Would there be any difference in speed doing this?

Martin