[PD-dev] class_addmethod2

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:48 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I have to say that I like the A_FLOAT, etc names better (you can
>> probably guess why).  Code should document itself.  "pffsFFS" is easy
>> to skim over while "A_POINTER, A_FLOAT, A_FLOAT, A_SYMBOL, A_DEFFLOAT,
>> A_DEFFLOAT, A_DEFSYMBOL" is very clear.   I won't miss the A_NULL
>> though.
>
> Maybe a "best of both worlds" approach could be used, that allows both
> long names and short aliases for methods, that accept veryveryverymany
> arguments and thus aren't readable with A_POINTER,... anyways.
>
> I could think of using a field delimiter like ":" in the argument type
> string: "p:f:f:s" or "A_POINTER:A_FLOAT:A_FLOAT:A_SYMBOL" then could
> be allowed. And we would get rid of A_NULL in both cases.

I think that this is readable:

	class_addmethod(test_class, (t_method) test_start, gensym("start"),
					A_DEFSYMBOL, A_POINTER, A_DEFFLOAT, A_DEFFLOAT,
					A_DEFFLOAT,	A_NULL);

You can't get longer than that since then an A_GIMME needs to be used.

.hc

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