On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:41:13PM
+0200, Alberto Alassio wrote:
> Me again.
> Looking at the examples, now I'm messing with
Chirp.
> I cannot understand what Tinc and Inc are. I think
that tinc is something
> like the time of every step from a freq to another
one, is it right?
> And Inc is how much freq increases according to
tinc's time, is it correct?
>
That seems to be exactly right, yes.
> But what is -count-? A counter of what? And what "
while ( count < steps )
> " and " 1+ => count " mean?
"count" refers to the current step. It starts out as
zero and
increases until the desired number of steps has been
reached.
"1 +=> count" adds one to the "count" and also stores
the result back
in "count".
It is not so clear to me why a float is used here for
"count",
instead of a integer, which would make more sense and
enable us to
simply increment by using;
count++;
Better yet would be a "for" loop. Maybe this example is
deliberately
doing unusual stuff to encourage people like you to spend
some time
picking it apart and figuring it out? It might also be
very old and
pre-dating something like comparing floats to integers. To
me it looks
like Ge's style which would make sense in both cases.
Hope that helps,