On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 15:38, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
> Le 2011-11-04 à 08:56:00, Roman Haefeli a écrit : > > > You said "(as it is like with any string-splitter outside of pd/max)". I >> should have said it more precisely: It doesn't make sense to compare Pd/Max >> with anything outside of Pd/Max regarding string-splitting, because 'just' >> splitting symbols (without the implicit conversion to float for number-like >> symbols) is not very practical in the Pd/World. >> > > How do you know that it isn't practical to have numeric symbols when > splitting ? > > If I read /etc/passwd (list of users on Linux&OSX) and I split at colons > and commas to get phone numbers, do you think I want Pd's help at rounding > a phone number from 383.3801 to 383.38 when converting (aller-retour) from > symbol to float to symbol, because it had too many significant digits for > Pd's taste ? > > So, just call me at 383.38 because it's more practical than dialling > 383.3801 ! ;) > Ultimately, who would dare to call James Bond "Agent 7"? András
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