[PD] minus; bug or feature?

[Andre Schmidt]

uuuups, (how stupid from me)
yep, i calculated wrong way :)

but i wanted to subtract x from y (x = dynamic, y = static) so i had to bang
y every time x changes to get result... or (what i now use, THNX) just
multiply with -1 (so i dont need to bang y)

-andre

----- Original Message -----
From: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig at iem.kug.ac.at>
To: "Andre Schmidt" <andre at vju.info>
Cc: "PD-LiST" <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] minus; bug or feature?


> Andre Schmidt wrote:
> > [win32 pd0.35-17]
>
> ok. hit me if i am very wrong, but i guess this is not related to the
> pd-release.... (my assumptions sounds arrogant to me, though)
>
>
> > when i calc with object "+" (like 54 + 10 i get 64)
> > but when i calc with object "-" (like 54 - 10 i get -44)
>
> well, this looks to me, like you were not calculating "54-10" but "10-54".
> The order does not matter when adding (a+b=b+a), but it does matter when
> subtracting (a-b != b-a)
> How does your patch look ?
>
> The following calculates 44 for me::
> =---   =---
> |54(   |10(
> =---   =---
> |      |
> =------=
> | -    |
> =-------
> |
> =-----\
> |44    |
> =-------
>
>
> >
> > so the calc is OK, but it puts a "minus"(-) in front of the number ?!?!
> > if this a feature; how can i "take" that minus away ???
> eg by multiplying with "-1" or by reversing the order....
>
> >
> >
> >
> > thnx
> >
> > -andre
> >
>
>
>