On 2010-11-03 15:46, Jamie Bullock wrote:
Hi all,
This is more of philosophical question than anything else. I'm curious to know why [sig~] hasn't been designed out of Pd. Why not have implicit control -> signal conversion everywhere it is possible?
For example why not allow this?
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i don't think i understand your question. the above is totally legal on the versions of Pd i have installed on this machine.
otoh, [sig~] has been there for ages and longer. some old patches might still use it, because _then_ you had to explicitely convert to signals. should [sig~] be removed and break these patches?
and while i do use implicit float/signal conversion in my patches, i think explicit conversion is not that bad either: it may prevent people from hooking a slider into a [*~] and then complain why they get glitches.
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