[PD] What exactly is a "stack overflow" ?

[Charles Henry]

On 12/19/07, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> I think, that now, that the "negative numbers" bug of [until] where
> negative numbers acted like a bang, is fixed in the next Pd, maybe we
> should tell beginners that they can send a number into Pd when they
> are unsure if their patch is stopping [until] correctly. Maybe we
> should even *preach* to send numbers instead of a bang into [until] in
> general? If you use a large enough number, it's "almost the same" as a
> bang except that it will stop by itself at some point.

I seem to be tuning in a little late, in this discussion, but if it's
a bad problem, couldn't you change the method of until to use only
floats?

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>  Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
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