On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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Is there any particular reason why [print] does not accept float
arguments? I think I want to add them.

probably for a similar reason like why [send] does not accept float
arguments?

(this is of course not true; [send] requires "binding" to a label,
and numbers (A_FLOAT) do not provide a mechanism to do so, whereas
symbols do)

I don't understand your point. Basically what I am asking is, would
anyone object to adding the ability to handle float args to [print]?

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Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

I don't understand your point. Basically what I am asking is, would
anyone object to adding the ability to handle float args to [print]?

No, I think this would be useful and I stumbled across [print] not accepting numbers in the past as well. Not that it would be crucial but I don't see any reason why print shouldn't accept float labels, too.

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On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:21 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

...

Is there any particular reason why [print] does not accept
float arguments? I think I want to add them.

probably for a similar reason like why [send] does not accept
float arguments?

(this is of course not true; [send] requires "binding" to a
label, and numbers (A_FLOAT) do not provide a mechanism to do
so, whereas symbols do)

I don't understand your point. Basically what I am asking is,
would anyone object to adding the ability to handle float args to
[print]?

which point? i just tried to give an explanation why things are as they are. not an excuse. and i also mentioned that my explanation is most likely wrong as it
draws parallels where there really are none.

i principally don't object to [print] accepting number arguments,
rather i'd favour it. (but don't want yet another patch that breaks compatibility with pd- vanilla; so it's just a matter whether miller has some objections -
after all, why does it not accept floats in the first place?)

Now that I look at it, I think it would make sense to allow multiple
atoms in the [print] box as well, converting to text using
binbuf_gettext(). Then it seems that having a symbol x->x_sym
doesn't work as well, and instead it should be char x->x_text [MAXPDSTRING];

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