[PD-dev] pack~/unpack~ (was Re: multichannel signals, preliminary support)

[Miller Puckette]

How about "snake~ in" and "snake~ out" ... assuming a "snake" is easily
enough understood as a multichannel audio cable?

Or tosnake~ / fromsnake~ or even snake~ and unsnake~ ?

cheers
M

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:02:33AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> I actually do like pack~/unpack~ a lot, because they have control
> counterparts and also MAX uses something similar but prepends 'mc.' to it,
> so [mc.pack~] and [mc.unpack~] are exactly what [pack~] and [unpack~] do!
> 
> On the other hand, if we really want to avoid this collision badly, maybe
> we could use a similar convention to specify an object that is multichannel
> aware, something quite new in the pd world. I'm not saying we should use
> the same 'mc.' convention. I know using "." is not much common in the Pd
> world, but in ELSE I use it and have plans to add many multichannel aware
> externals that would make things simpler and while we don't have our
> [clone] solution for internal and external objects, like a muti channel
> [dac~] object called [dac.mc~]. I like it better that the mc comes later as
> objects would be alphabetically next to their multichannel version. This
> would also prevent people from thinking it's an external from Cyclone that
> mimics the original.
> 
> 
> So... what about [pack.mc~] and [unpack.mc~]?
> 
> maybe just [packmc~] and [unpackmc~] as well... but I like "."
> 
> cheers
> 
> Em seg., 23 de jan. de 2023 às 06:38, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
> 
> > On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 08:40 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> > >
> > > i would prefer this.
> > > howe about the [split~]/[merge~] pair suggested by Jean-Yves?
> >
> > I think those are more descriptive names, regardless of the name
> > collision problem.
> >
> > + 1
> >
> > > in retrospect i wouldn't have named the zexy objects like i did, but
> > > i
> > > was young and needed the money.
> >
> > I don't think 'pack~' and 'unpack~' fit any less to what zexy's objects
> > do. Like their non-tilde counterparts, they pack to lists und unpack
> > from lists. I think those names are quite good.
> >
> > Roman
> >
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