24 Apr
2008
24 Apr
'08
7:17 p.m.
Andy Farnell wrote:
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:07 -0700 Miller Puckette mpuckett@imusic1.ucsd.edu wrote:
This is a serious problem -- putting a backwards "pow~" into Pd might be worse than having none at all. But writing a book that uses "pow" backwards would be even worse than having one in Pd!
Agreed. This is a difficult choice.
Since it would be in core how about ^ or **
^ is usually bitwise XOR (in C, and Pd's expr).
** is used for powers in a number of languages (Haskell, Fortran too I think).
But, there is the potential confusion of [pow][pow~][**][**~], it would be nice if the signal version of maths behaved the same as the non-signal maths with the same name (confusing if [pow] exists but the signal equivalent is [**~]).