[PD] dealing with arguments and inlets

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 5, 2006, at 4:01 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Now tell me, why do you like $# and $@ over [patcherargs] ?
>>>
>>> Languages that provide arguments generally provide argc and argv.  I  
>>> think Pd
>>> should too.
>>> C, C++ has argc,  argv
>>> Java has args.getLength, String[] args
>>> bourne shell has $#,  $@
>>> C shell has $#argv, $argv
>>> Perl has  $#argv, @argv
>>
>>
>> It could be an object class called [args] too, no? (I don't like the  
>> name
>
>
> btw, there is an object [dollarg] in iemlib that does exactly this.


$# and $@ would also be useful in messages.  But I suppose [arguments]  
could handle argc and argv, and be a C object.  It could output a list  
of the arguments from the left inlet and the number of arguments from  
the right inlet.

.hc


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