[Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections

[Chuckk Hubbard]

>From: IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at
>Subject: Re: [Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections
>To: Jo?o Miguel Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
>Cc: PD-List <pd-list at iem.at>
>Message-ID: <4417CFFE.20702 at iem.at >
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>João Miguel Pais wrote:
>>> ... and then people will complain that their patches do strange things
>>> because they created fanning-connections with undefined execution
>>> order instead of properly using the trigger-object.
>>>
>>> I don't think it's a good idea to encourage outlet-fanning with a
>>> keyboard shortcut.
>>
>>
>> you don't need trigger for all occasions. sometimes it doesn't matter
>> in  which order the messages are sent, only that they arrive - like in
>> come  cases where building a spider web is necessary because of lots of
>
>this is true, but it is a special case where the programmer has to know
>that the order does not matter.
>it is a bad design for a programming language, if it tends to create
>programs that behave "somehow".

I guess I agree, for connecting one outlet to multiple inlets, but I still
see no problem with being able to connect multiple outlets to one inlet.

-Chuckk

>
>> But it's also not that bad to let people make mistakes. Then they'll
>> learn  quite faster.
>
>allowing people to make mistakes is something different than helping
>(enforcing) people to make mistakes.
>the former could be considered as some (weird) form of education, while
>the latter is just offending.
>
>
>mfg.asdr.
>IOhannes
>
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