I really wish Pd had a 32 bit integer data type for counters, and other places where integers are appropriate.
This problem with single precision floats is my #1 gripe/ buzz-killer....
(but overall, I am very, very happy with Pd!)
e.g. I spent aa few hours with it, but was unable to master the onset inlet of [tabread4~], and find the example to be highly contrived and hard to understand.
The Perl programming language had a very amazing mechanism. There is only a "scalar" datatype, which can be (depending on context), a character string, a float, or an integer.
There was some real genius under the hood which did automatic conversions when necessary, so the programmer didn't really have to worry about it. The runtime (a hybrid compiler/interpreter) always would do the right thing.
Not sure if there are any lessons from Perl we can borrow, or if the intelligence is to costly for real-time.
BH
On Saturday, February 27, 2016, s p <sebpiq@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I guessed the issue was with precision, but in that case why would anyone want to use it? > I was about to use [zexy/time], but [utime] would have been so much simpler in my case ... > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:23 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote: >> >> On 02/27/2016 12:34 AM, s p wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > I am trying to use [utime] to get an absolute date in seconds since epoch. >> > However, the number of seconds seems to be rounded, so I don't understand >> > how is it of any use!? For example, the following patch prints 0 ... >> > >> >> short answer: single precision floating point precision. >> >> depending on your use-case, you probably can use zexy's [date] and >> [time] objects instead. >> >> gmdsar >> IOhannes >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > > > -- > Sébastien Piquemal > > ----- @sebpiq > ----- http://github.com/sebpiq > ----- http://funktion.fm >
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