[PD] what distinguishes a numeric symbol as an argument?

Claude Heiland-Allen claudiusmaximus at goto10.org
Fri Jun 1 00:23:31 CEST 2007


Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Matteo Sisti Sette hat gesagt: // Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
> 
>> conjecture 2 - a PD message is simply a human-readable string that you can 
>> always "see" by for example [print]ing it, or prepending a "set" and viewing 
>> it in a message box, and two messages that "appear" identical are identical.
> 
> Yes, this conjecture fails for some kinds of Pd messages. One is the
> symbol-float: it's not possible to "see" the difference to a
> float-float. Also pointers, which are in Pd for ages (since 1996 or
> so), are non-printable in full: You can print their data, but not the
> pointer itself. Even if two pointers share the same data, they don't
> need to be the same pointers.

Another case where this fails is numbers with over 6 digits, although 
this is more down to Pd not showing the extra digits (including when 
saving them):

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-09/042419.html


Claude
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