IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
What kind of other atom types are you thinking? Like int? I suppose to make Pd into a full-fledged programming language, it would be useful to be able to support things like 128-bit floats, 32-bit ints, etc..
well, yes, but that is not my concern now. i would rather have that pd's native floating point format to be settable at compile time, but that is something completely different.
what i would like to have is more along strings, gem-states,... and other complex stuff. i am not thinking about types that can be defined within the pd environment, but rather outside (in C,...)
The string/blob patch already allows you to do this. The atom is just a pointer. The application can use the pointer any way it likes. And as I said, I'm still not convinced that it causes trouble for code that doesn't use it.
Maritn