<div dir="ltr">Dear list,<br><br>Consider;<br>===================================<br>//definition<br>second => dur foo;<br><br>//this is fine<br>2.0 *=> foo;<br><br>//this is not fine<br>2 *=> foo;<br>====================<br>
<br>The last line gives a error about not being able to resolve *=> on types int and dur. I wonder if this is correct behaviour; I can imagine many cases where a integer multiple of some duration is needed to avoid "trainwrecking" (a DJ term for two concurent tracks running at slightly different speeds). While we can obviously express integers as floats as well there may be cases where the int data-type can make guaranteeing we are dealing with a natural number easier, for example Std.rand2( ).<br>
<br>while correct I don't think either alternative looks especially nice;<br><br>Std.rand2(1,4) * 1.0 *=> foo;<br>Std.rand2(1,4) $ float *=> foo;<br><br>This does work in the comparable case of;<br><br>//correct but not as ChucKian<br>
foo * 3 => foo;<br><br>or even;<br><br>1.2 => float bar;<br>//implicit casting in *=> does work here<br>3 *=> bar;<br><br><br>So; I'd like to sugest a implicit casting of int to float or further overloading *=> in these cases.<br>
<br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br></div>