[PD-dev] gem vs. mrpeach strings?

Martin Peach martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Fri Nov 9 21:22:36 CET 2007


IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > What kind of other atom types are you thinking?  Like int?  I suppose to
> > make Pd into a full-fledged programming language, it would be useful to
> > be able to support things like 128-bit floats, 32-bit ints, etc..
>
>well, yes, but that is not my concern now.
>i would rather have that pd's native floating point format to be
>settable at compile time, but that is something completely different.
>
>what i would like to have is more along strings, gem-states,... and
>other complex stuff.
>i am not thinking about types that can be defined within the pd
>environment, but rather outside (in C,...)
>

The string/blob patch already allows you to do this. The atom is just a 
pointer. The application can use the pointer any way it likes. And as I 
said, I'm still not convinced that it causes trouble for code that doesn't 
use it.

Maritn






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