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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I don't see how adding # variables would give you anything but a  
>> shortcut.  I
>> don't think it would give you anything that you can't do currently  
>> with Pd.
>> Do you have any examples?
>
> [metro] is already a shortcut for [delay]-[t a a]-[spigot] triangle...  
> why
> does [metro] exist? because it's a nice shortcut.
>
> however i don't advocate using the "#" character for that, for obvious
> reasons... though i don't know which one else would be picked instead.

If you want to call writing objects a shortcut, that's fine.  But  
that's the basis of programming in Pd.  Specifically, I mean that the #  
args are a shortcut to avoid patching something in Pd.

.hc

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