On Dec 18, 2006, at 1:23 AM, carmen wrote:
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..
There are set rules which defined what is a float, symbol, or
pointer. You cannot change that type, often even with a special
method. Ever tried to turn a float into a symbol? Doesn't really
work, only partially.
.hc
, 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
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic
_______________________________________________
PD-dev mailing list
PD-dev@iem.at
http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
