[PD] what's the deal with [utime] object?

[Jack]

Le 27/02/2016 16:49, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list a écrit :
>> we should have switched to doubles long ago.
> 
> According to katja, that would trigger a zombie apocalypse in external
> land. 
> And the only way to tell the zombies from the survivors would be to...
> *gulp*...
> 
> actually read external library code.
> 
> Personally, I'd rather get eaten by a zombie than do that.

Are you sure [1][2][3] ?
++

Jack

[1] Night of the Living Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead
[2] Dawn of the dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Dead_%281978_film%29
[3] Day of the Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead_%281985_film%29


> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:31 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig
> <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/27/2016 09:55 AM, William Huston wrote:
>> I really wish Pd had a 32 bit integer data type for counters, and other
>> places where integers are appropriate.
> 
> actually i strongly disagree: i think it is one of Pd's killer features
> to have a single numeric type.
> 
> the only problem is that the actually used numeric type (single
> precision floating point) is rather limited.
> we should have switched to doubles long ago.
> 
> gfmdsar
> 
> IOhannes
> 
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