[PD-dev] $0 in messages, was: multiple $arg-expansion

[Thomas Grill]

Hey all,

>   The only advantage I can see to the addition of # args is shortcuts.

that's one advantage and it's an important one. When building more 
complex messages the [unpack], [f $x], [pack], [msg x $1 y $2(  thing 
is a real pain, both for performance and for the eye.

> But that would be at the expense of syntactic and logical simplicity, 
> and my guess is that it would make code harder to read rather than 
> easier.
>

i can't follow that argument. I just returned from a beginner's 
workshop and the fact that $x means different things in the same patch 
was obviously confusing for the people. It's much easier to read and 
understand that $x are always message parameters and #x are always 
abstraction arguments.

greetings,
Thomas