[PD] (breaking symbols) was Re: find a list of numbers in a text file

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I think you are missing the point of what I am saying.  I am not saying with 
> we implement a strict duck typing mimicing Ruby or Python.

I think you are missing the point of what I am saying. I am saying that 
you are using the wrong words for that.

> So in the sense of Pd, anything that can be intepreted as a number 
> should be. But that's in conflict with having symbols that have things 
> that can be intepreted as a number.  So make Pd consistent, either it 
> needs to be illegal to have symbols that can be interpreted as a number,

This could break some existing patches.

> or maybe symbols that can be interpreted as a number behave like a float 
> when something is expecting a float.

That's what Tcl and Perl do for ints, floats and strings.

They don't call it duck-typing though, and no-one does.

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