[PD] dealing with arguments and inlets

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I have written some classes for handling arguments when writing classes 
in Pd.  They are [float_argument], [symbol_argument], and 
[any_argument].  Currently, I am thinking in general,  inlets should be 
matched to arguments and vice versa, so these objects all have a 
"convenience" right inlet, to attach the [inlet] to so that the data 
all comes from the [*_argument] object.

To use them, you add the argument you want it to handle like this:

[float_argument $1]

If you want a default value for when none is specified, you would do it 
like this:

[float_argument $2 234]
[symbol_argument $3 default]
[any_argument $9 asdf]
[any_argument $5 444]

My goal is to make these a standard way of handling arguments when 
writing classes in Pd.  What do y'all think?

Also, I am trying to think of a library name in which these would 
belong.  foundation? support?  core?  patching? language?

.hc


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