Fair point Hans. My main consideration though is ease of understanding. What this looks like to students when you have to explain there isn't an object to raise to a power in Pd, but there is a button dedicated to it on every desktop calculator.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:59:46 -0400 Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
And to stir the pot, expr is GPL, almost all the rest of Pd is BSD,
so you might not always be able to use expr..hc
On Apr 21, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Andy Farnell wrote:
Yes. Please don't take this the wrong way Derek, I sincerely
appreciate the suggestion.Everything can be done with [expr~], so why don't we just rename Pd to [expr~]? :)
Seriously, raising one number to a power is an essential,
fundamental operation Is there any plausible excuse for its omission from core Pd?On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:53:00 +0200 Derek Holzer derek@umatic.nl wrote:
Can the job be done with [expr~]?
d.
Andy Farnell wrote:
Did I read that Cyclone is to be incorporated into vanilla Pd?
Having discovered too late that [pow~] is not part of vanilla I am about to remove the constraint of using vanilla Pd for the synthetic sound design book since it is incomplete without basic mathematical operators.
andy
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