[PD] Spigot Creation agruments?

[IOhannes zmoelnig]

David Sabine wrote:
> Hello,
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> [spigot] confuses me a little.  It seems that the only creation argument 
> that it accepts is a "zero".  However, "zero" is the default state for 
> spigot even without the creation argument?

true
additionally, you could pass any symbol to the [spigot] object.
however, this has no meaning too.

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> Would it make sense to re-write [spigot] to accept "0" or "1" as a 
> creation argument which could then effectively be used to define its 
> default state?

definitely.
thomas' [gate] object does this, but i would rather have this 
functionality built into pd's spigot than use an external for such thing.
on the other hand, you could open the [spigot] with a loadbang in most 
cases.

> Can somebody clarify this issue for me?

not really.
it seems, like miller did it in a hurry (in days yonder) and since it 
works, it was never touched again.
since [spigot] is no max-object, there are no compatibility issues either.

mfg.cds.sdf
IOhannes

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> Many thanks,
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> Dave Sabine
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