[PD] dealing with arguments and inlets

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 5, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> [float_argument], [symbol_argument], and [any_argument] (previously
>> [list_argument]) can do defaults like this: [symbol_argument $1  
>> default]
>> so we already got that part of [patcherargs] covered.
>>
>> As for using an indeterminate amount of arguments, I think that would  
>> be
>> better supported using $# and $@ in Pd (or perhaps $argc and $argv).
>
> If you believe that abstractions are better than externals, I
> would suppose that it also implies that externals are better than
> new syntax. After all, an external is usable by all right now,
> whereas modifying pd is somewhat more troublesome.
>
> Now tell me, why do you like $# and $@ over [patcherargs] ?

Languages that provide arguments generally provide argc and argv.  I  
think Pd should too.

C, C++ has argc,  argv
Java has args.getLength, String[] args
bourne shell has $#,  $@
C shell has $#argv, $argv
Perl has  $#argv, @argv

.hc

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