[PD] expr alternative

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2011-10-25 à 12:38:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :

> It's worth noting that the current [expr] is both "Max-centric"-- 
> because numbers written as integers imply integer math-- and 
> incompatible with Max-- because in object boxes Pd strips the decimal 
> from "1." which is a common idiom in Max to force float math.

Pd also turns «1.0» (and such) into «1».

However, Pd never strips those things if they get parsed as symbols.

thus [expr 1.0/2] gives 0.5 whereas [expr 1.0 /2] will become [expr 1 /2] 
which will give 0.

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