On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
My intuition says that +1 should be a symbol,
Intuition is something that is trained. If you trained that part of your intuition using pd and not much else, you may get to see "+1 is a symbol" as something normal, obvious, and the way it should be. People with different experience may get to think otherwise. The leading + is recognised in float literals in almost all programming languages; actually, only pd works like that, if I think only of contemporary languages that were designed for doing real work.
But if Pd starts removed + signs upon save, then that could also be annoying.
Pd already removes a lot of things. e.g. 1000001 becomes 1e+6, and so does 1000002, ...
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