Hallo, Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
OMG, is it really true that pow and pow~ are reversed from each other in Max (and hence cyclone)!?
Not in Max, but in Cyclone, which uses the [pow] from Pd, which is reverse from the [pow] in Max.
According to the Max 4.6 manual both pow~ and pow in Max have base right, exponent left, and the argument sets the base.
[pow] in Pd has base left and exponent right, argument sets the exponent (i.e. the message at the right inlet).
In the C-math-library, pow is: pow(x=base, y=exponent).
I guess, I'm convinced now that [pow~] in Pd should behave like Pd's [pow] and the hell with Max-compatibility. However for Andy this probably means even more work now ...
I think, Cyclone's [pow~] should be renamed to something like [rpow~] then. IIRC Cyclone can be made to do some translations when importing Max-patches like for [Snapshot~], a translation pow~ to rpow~ then maybe could be added. I don't think, a warning message in Pd would be necessary, it may be annoying.
Ciao
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