[Pd] Feature request: simultaneous connections

[day 5]

Hi Chuckk,

less rich text format pls. it triplicates the time it takes to receive 
your messages.

kthx


./d5

On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> >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 >
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
> >
> >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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