<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12196"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12201">Hi Matt,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12196"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12200">Looks like expr has '^'.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12196"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12196"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12382">What is [error]? Is it in Max?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12196"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1444849428759_12196"><span>-Jonathan</span></div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 2:40 PM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0200744932"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv0200744932gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">A simpler thing would be to just have any object that deals with file i/o to return something like an "exit status" on a read or after a write attempt.</div><div class="yiv0200744932gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0200744932gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">As long as we're wishing for stuff, I wish vanilla included the [error] object for proper error handling in abstractions. And a bitwise XOR.</div></div><div class="yiv0200744932gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0200744932yqt5568767583" id="yiv0200744932yqtfd74451"><div class="yiv0200744932gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:12 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at" target="_blank" href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv0200744932gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span class="yiv0200744932">On 2015-10-14 12:07, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:<br clear="none">
> On 2015-10-14 09:34, Roman Haefeli wrote:<br clear="none">
>> I don't see why [textfile] shouldn't report that to the patch instead of<br clear="none">
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> because it would require a lot of code to be added to all use-cases of<br clear="none">
> [ŧextfile] in order to not break the feedback where it is indeed desired<br clear="none">
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"because it would require code to be added to all uses of [ŧextfile]<br clear="none">
where the error is indeed desired and needed."<br clear="none">
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> this *could* be done in a way satisfying to both, if Pd had some kind of<br clear="none">
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