[Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections
day 5
day5ive at gmail.com
Wed Mar 15 15:49:03 CET 2006
Hi Chuckk,
less rich text format pls. it triplicates the time it takes to receive
your messages.
kthx
./d5
On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> >From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at
> >Subject: Re: [Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections
> >To: Jo?o Miguel Pais < jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
> >Cc: PD-List < pd-list at iem.at>
> >Message-ID: <4417CFFE.20702 at iem.at >
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
> >
> >João Miguel Pais wrote:
> >>> ... and then people will complain that their patches do strange
> things
> >>> because they created fanning-connections with undefined execution
> >>> order instead of properly using the trigger-object.
> >>>
> >>> I don't think it's a good idea to encourage outlet-fanning with a
> >>> keyboard shortcut.
> >>
> >>
> >> you don't need trigger for all occasions. sometimes it doesn't
> matter
> >> in which order the messages are sent, only that they arrive - like
> in
> >> come cases where building a spider web is necessary because of
> lots of
> >
> >this is true, but it is a special case where the programmer has to
> know
> >that the order does not matter.
> >it is a bad design for a programming language, if it tends to create
> >programs that behave "somehow".
>
> I guess I agree, for connecting one outlet to multiple inlets, but I
> still see no problem with being able to connect multiple outlets to
> one inlet.
>
> -Chuckk
>
> >
> >> But it's also not that bad to let people make mistakes. Then they'll
> >> learn quite faster.
> >
> >allowing people to make mistakes is something different than helping
> >(enforcing) people to make mistakes.
> >the former could be considered as some (weird) form of education,
> while
> >the latter is just offending.
> >
> >
> >mfg.asdr.
> >IOhannes
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