[PD-dev] bang [block~] to query current blocksize

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Hmm, for DSP state, that's global, so using a global receive symbol  
> makes sense, IMHO.  

The problem is not, that the state is global, but that with the
send/receive approach there would only be a global way to access the
state, but no locally restricted way. 

Take for example [samplerate~]: The (global) samplerate also is a
global property, but with [samplerate~] I can access this information
locally, i.e. it will only be sent to the outlet of the [samplerate~]
object that gets a bang. Imagine if instead of [samplerate~] there was
only a global [s pd-samplerate] and [r pd-samplerate] pair available.
Everytime, you'd want to get the samplerate, you would also activate
all other places where you have a [r pd-samplerate]!

Chuck's workaround of [spigot]ting all receivers of course is even
more of a kludge and may in fact be proof of a lack of needed
functionality.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__