Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hmm, I don't think it would be so great for to have floats and ints in Pd for most uses. This has probably been discussed before, but is there any chance of generalizing the pointer type? Or perhaps there should be just a generic pointer type, that's what I think IOhannes was proposing.
Well the int can easily be converted to a float as already happens when you type one into a number box. There would be a default int handler for inlets that don't explicitly have one, which would just make it into a float and keep going.
The blob is a generic pointer type. It's just a pointer and the length of whatever it points at.
The 'pointer' that's used in graphical arrays is just not usable I think, in fact it's misnamed.
Martin