[PD-dev] [once] default closed...

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I was thinking that it would be nice to have [once] accept a  
>> single argument which would set the initial state of the object,  
>> just like [spigot].  But this means that it would have to be  
>> default closed like spigot, breaking backwards compatibility.
>
> No, it doesn't mean that. You need to make the creator accept  
> A_GIMME instead of A_DEFFLOAT. Then when you get argc,argv, check  
> whether argc==0.

[once] is written in Pd, so that doesn't apply.

.hc


>> Do you mind if I make this change in abstractions/purepd/once.pd  
>> and add a warning message on load?
>
> Don't accept Pd's limitations, push for $@ and/or $# today!
>
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