> Automatic type conversion sounds like a really bad idea if the language only > partially supports it. Pd is strongly typed
is it? it mainly has numbers that occasionally look like symbols, and symbols that more than occasionally look like lists and/or strings.. > , so what Martin says is definitely appropriate. > Perl is the opposite, everything can be automatically cast, so there it > makes sense. it is definitely a design decision which way to go. could PD flexibly support both at once? or does there need to be an OCaml edition, and a Perl edition? _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
