[PD] dealing with arguments and inlets

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> > 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

It could be an object class called [args] too, no? (I don't like the name
[patcherargs] because not all patchers have args nor a
t_canvasenvironment).

PS: none of the above languages have [float_argument] ;-)

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