Hi Miller,
On 29/10/14 12:34, Miller Puckette wrote:
Oops, you're right, that acomplished nothing but deeper confusion.
There should be a way to convert strings <-> floats in vanilla without making a monstrous ascii-parsing patch. Seems like this shouldn't happen automatcally (99% of teh time it's probably a mistake) but there should be a way to do it when you actually want to...
One alternative would be to make the [f] object accept a subset of symbols that look like floats so that a user can do an explicit typecast, printing an error in the event a symbol does not convert cleanly. Would you hypothetically accept a patch that did that?
Incidentally, my eyes might be deceiving me but it seems like pdfloat_float() is defined twice in x_connective.c(.)
Cheers,
Chris.