<div>>From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at">zmoelnig@iem.at</a><br>>Subject: Re: [Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections<br>>To: Jo?o Miguel Pais <
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jmmmpais@googlemail.com">jmmmpais@googlemail.com</a>><br>>Cc: PD-List <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:pd-list@iem.at">
pd-list@iem.at</a>><br>>Message-ID: <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:4417CFFE.20702@iem.at">4417CFFE.20702@iem.at</a><span></span> ><br>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
<br>><br>>Joćo Miguel Pais wrote:<br>>>> ... and then people will complain that their patches do strange things<br>>>> because they created fanning-connections with undefined execution<br>>>> order instead of properly using the trigger-object.
<br>>>><br>>>> I don't think it's a good idea to encourage outlet-fanning with a<br>>>> keyboard shortcut.<br>>><br>>><br>>> you don't need trigger for all occasions. sometimes it doesn't matter
<br>>> in which order the messages are sent, only that they arrive - like in<br>>> come cases where building a spider web is necessary because of lots of<br>><br>>this is true, but it is a special case where the programmer has to know
<br>>that the order does not matter.<br>>it is a bad design for a programming language, if it tends to create<br>>programs that behave "somehow".<br> </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>-Chuckk</div>
<div> </div>
<div>><br>>> But it's also not that bad to let people make mistakes. Then they'll<br>>> learn quite faster.<br>><br>>allowing people to make mistakes is something different than helping<br>>(enforcing) people to make mistakes.
<br>>the former could be considered as some (weird) form of education, while<br>>the latter is just offending.<br>><br>><br>>mfg.asdr.<br>>IOhannes<br>></div>