On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Maybe the Max/MSP reference manual, page 656? Quoting: [...] type of number, converting the input items as necessary). If no argument is typed in, unpack will have two int outlets. Symbol arguments allow symbols to pass through, and change numbers to the empty symbol ("").
pd's [unpack] does not convert. it says "type mismatch".
I think that in retrospect, the type declaration could be much more useful if it actually caused conversion, but turning any number to the empty symbol is certainly not conversion.
Yes, I know: Pd is not Max and Pd doesn't differentiate ints and floats (here)
Just suppose no "i" is used in Max's [unpack] and no int is passed to it; and suppose no "p" is used in Pd's [unpack] and no pointer is passed to it; then the essential differences of both [unpack]s should become most obvious.
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