Hi Krzsysztof, you are right complaining about the way ints are used with some max objects. However, i was always happy to have a data type that _is_ integer and can't be anything else, so that enumerations are what they are. But that's just a personal preference. It seems that one can happily live without integers.
Thomas
----- Original Message ----- From: "Krzysztof Czaja" czaja@chopin.edu.pl To: "Thomas Grill" t.grill@gmx.net Cc: "Frank Barknecht" barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de; "pd" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [PD] Max/MSP vs. Pd [was: shadow patch bug]
hi Thomas,
I wonder if an average Jack-the-noise-maker is really happy having to learn what is the difference between 1 and 1.0, and which object (and what inlet) rejects floats, which truncates them, and which accepts unchanged? Or maybe it is only me being yet another lazy copy-paste musician?
Krzyszt-I-want-my-noises-done-quick-and-easy-of
Thomas Grill wrote:
Most max users that i know don't want to waste their time with a long learning phase. They are musicians, not programmers.
But they have to distinguish between "int" and "float"...
This is quite natural and i consider it useful.