[GEM-dev] gem and init to 0

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> So it seems that gem objects are initing everything to zero, things like 
> colorRGB and translateXYZ don't work if you specify less than three 
> values.  It seems to me that those missing values should be set to zero, 
> since that is how Pd generally works,


hmm, i would prefer if elements that are used wrongly would not create 
at all.

e.g. if you make an object [translateXYZ 0 1] you will get an error 
message on the console "[translateXYZ]: needs 0 or 3 arguments".
users should read the console and properly create the objects.
i understand that nobody will have a look at the console everytime an 
object has been created.
so they should be guided by some feedback: the best feedback i can 
imagine right now would be to fail to create the object.

the alternative would be to provide wrong default arguments. i cal lthem 
"wrong" because they will most likely be wrong in most cases. therefore 
i prefer to not impose them on the users.


mfg,asdr
IOhannes

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