On Dec 27, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Tim Blechmann wrote:
Matju wrote:
why is it that [*] is only for floats, whereas if you want to
multiply two signals one has to use [*~] ?why do patch cords have different width?
Because Miller added that in 0.35 or 0.36 or some other release.
But more deeply: because it reflects the nature of the
implementation of pd or of its limitations. If it wanted to make
more distinctions, it could have separated the patchcord types by
message types and add several kind of zigzags, stipples, colours,
etc. For example, in this diagram,http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/coleco/jumpman_junior.gif
There are short zigzag cords vs long zigzag cords, and those inform
the user about what those cords are for. (The red vs green
distinction is optional, so that the visual appearance of the
diagram communicates the same information if a two-tone display is
used.)
Much more importantly, the thick coords represent that a different
data type is passing thru the coords. It's not really an issue of
representing the implementation, instead it's representing that those
two types of coords can not be intermixed.
.hc
why is there no |!/~| object like in max/msp?
I don't know. Where's the [swap] that can support signals? ;)
and why is expr~ so slow?
I don't know, this might deserve a look (or a rewrite).
why are the inlets of |pow~| reversed?
Because it was supposed to be called [!pow~] instead?
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