[PD] an BUG on [expr] ???

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
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> On 2012-05-30 17:17, Jonghyun Kim wrote:
>> 
>>  I think it is a bug...
>> 
> it's a feature.
> 
> [expr~] behaves the same on max/msp and Pd,

[expr if($f1%3==0,1,0)]

Can someone confirm that this works in Max/MSP?

-Jonathan

> and therefore inherits the
> best of both worlds (e.g. using integers when a number looks like an
> integer)
> 
> the biggest problem is, that Pd's text<->atom conversion will save a
> token that looks like a number and can be expressed without decimals
> as something that looks like an integer. e.g. [f 60.000] will be
> stored as [f 60].
> this can be problematic with [expr], e.g. [expr 1000.0 / 60.0] will be
> stored as [expr 1000 / 60], which will result in integer evaluation
> and produce 16.
> a workaround is to make the parser think that the number is really
> something else (a symbol), e.g. [expr (1000.0 / 60.0)], which will
> produce 16.6666...
> 
> gmasdr
> IOhannes
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