jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Message written at 18 Feb 1997 09:40:46 +0000
> 
> Would anyone object if the score read floating point numbers with
> optional exponents?  I ask as I have made a modification here which
> shortens the code, but as a side effect introduces "standard" floating
> point representation.  Beore i incorporate that I wanted to check that
> it woudl make someone happy and not upset others.
> ==John
> 
> PS I have already done it to orc files I believe, but I did not mention it.


Oh, yes, please do.  I sometimes find myself
jumping through hoops in order to keep score
generating programs from using exponents
when I have them express very small numbers.

If Csound was able to read them directly (Heck,
atof() understands them) than I could
relax a bit more, and concentrate on the musical
results of calculations rather than on the format 
chosen to express them by the language in question.

Besides, what possible disadvantage could there be?

Toby