[Fluxus] ArgCheck "i" parameter

David Griffiths dave at pawfal.org
Fri Jan 7 02:23:06 PST 2011


On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 10:49 +0100, gabor papp wrote:
> > I sort of think it would be nicer to implicitly truncate floats to ints
> > coming in, but this is type coercion that I usually am dead set
> > against.
> we can change it back if you think it's better. in my opinion it's 
> confusing a bit if we silently truncate floats to ints in places where 
> we require ints. also in that case we could use "i" and "f" 
> interchangeably in ArgCheck, which does not feel right to me.

No I think you are right - my opinion is more motivated by the hassle of
remembering to type (inexact->exact (round f)) while livecoding. We can
solve this on the scheme end.

cheers,

dave




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