Re: [Pythonsound-devel] omde.score patch [was (no subject)]

[Paul W. <sli...@ya...>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 06:35:41PM +0200, Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:
> >   BUG FIXED: F.end() added, to always return F.onset instead of F.duration
> >     (which is actually not duration but table length).
> >      Using F and I polymorphically would not have worked.
> There was I reason for not to add the end() method... but I don't remember
> what...

If you remember, I'd be curious to hear. I can't think of any problems
with F.end().

> The problem of the "duration" of tables was known to me. This is the
> reason the attach() method and related code. But it's a temporary
> workaround.

Aha, I didn't make the connection. I was wondering what those were for!

> >   SUGGESTION: a shorter name for calculate_onset_min_max, et al,
> >    would be get_onset_min_max.
> 
> calculate_ was there to remeber that it is not at accessor method but it
> has to do some work. Could we use calc_ as a compromise?

If you like. But why is it necessary for the programmer to remember
that this method "has to do some work"? He/she is only interested in
the return value.

> >   BUG FIXED: calculate_onset_min_max always returned None as minimum.
> >
> >   BUG FIXED: calculate_begin_end always returned None as the start.
> 
> Did you checked it?
> min(None, everything) is always everything. It's like None is infinite and
> this is the reason to use max2().

$ python
Python 2.1 (#5, Oct  8 2001, 00:32:31) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> min (None, 1)
>>> print min (None, 1)
None


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