Hi, On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:13:01PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > About hex 0x form, that could conceivably fall under the "anything > that looks like a number is a float", as least for programmers.
I really disagree with your assumption, that in Pd, "anything that looks like a number is a float". This is simlpy not how Pd works or is programmed, it's not in the manual [1] and [makefilename %d] proves the opposite is true: Some symbols can indeed look a lot like numbers. I think, your wrong premise leads to wrong conclusions and should be reconsidered. [1] Here are some occurrences of you premise: - "Anything that is not a valid number os considered a symbol." appears in "2.1.2. object boxes" and talks about object boxes. "2.3.1. anatomy of a message" "The selector is a symbol, which appears in the patch as a non-numeric string with no white space, semicolons, or commas". Note the "appears in a patch", which again hints at the well-known "feature" of the editor to convert things that look like numbers to floats. Same chapter: "It is possible to type messages which start with a number, which cannot be used as a selector." Note the "type". Ciao -- Frank _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
