In response to your example below, the result of the addition will be 5~ given that messages [2( and [3( were sent while DSP was off.  This is a surprise to me!  <br><br>[sig~] can be helpful when you require a constant value at audio-rate, any example I can conjure seems contrived (as in writing a constant value to a tabwrite~).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca">matju@artengine.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Why not have implicit control -&gt; signal conversion everywhere it is possible?<br>
For example why not allow this?<br>
|2(     |3(<br>
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[+~ ]<br>
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This is allowed (though I haven&#39;t checked the details of what happens if you send that while dsp is off).<br>
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