[PD] [*] vs [*~]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 30, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> Much more importantly, the thick coords represent that a different  
>> data type is passing thru the coords.  It's not really an issue of  
>> representing the implementation, instead it's representing that  
>> those two types of coords can not be intermixed.
>
> But how does the type of those cords represent anything else than  
> limitations of the implementation? How does the choice of  
> considering those things as distinct types, and the choice to not  
> auto-convert between types, constitute wise design decisions,  
> beyond just being things that we have to accept as fact in the  
> context of Pd?

Its a design choice, its part of the language.  Any implementation  
would have to include that in order to be compatible.

.hc

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