[PD] inlet numbering

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Jun 1 19:26:39 CEST 2004


Hallo,
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen hat gesagt: // Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, guenter geiger wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 May 2004, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> > > Counting from 0 is the normal thing to do in programming languages.
> > > I think thats a good reason.
> > 
> > This only applies to indexes. The "first" element of an array has
> > index 0. If you talk about elements, there is no zero'th element.
> > 
> > PD inlets do not have indexes .. ahem, or, do they .. :)
> > 
> 
> I still don't like start counting starting from 1. Makes me feel like a 
> human. :)

I feel with you. But in fact, in Pd several other things start from 1,
for example the command line arguments for soundcard or midi devs
which drove me crazy because on Linux the actual devices are numbered
"the machine way" starting from 0.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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