[PD-dev] from t_symbol to t_class

[IOhannes zmölnig]

On 01/04/2013 07:19 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> I think you're safe calling vmess() to pass no arguments to clip_new
> (for example) - the worst that can happen is the "return value" (the
> global "newest" is zero.  If not it's a proper Pd object you can use zgetfn()
> on to test it for messages.
>
> Main problem I see with this is that some classes like "select" and "list"
> are actually several classes that share a name (and which one gets created
> depends on the arguments sent to vmess())


also, what happens if the object in question accesses some hardware 
ressource? e.g. [pix_video] will try to grab an available video-source, 
potentially locking a hardware device.
in theory this should not be aproblem, as the object will hopefully be 
freed by [classinfo] asap, but in practice it might have all kinds of 
side-effects, starting from short lockups of Pd to launching rockets.


gmfad
IOhannes