[PD] Number of Creation Arguments of an Abstraction

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > 
> > >># But, of course, this gives an error when there are no creation 
> > >>arguments.
> > >As missing arguments are initialized to 0 you can use a [select 0] to
> > >filter out unwanted arguments.
> > 
> > If someone really wants to have $1 = 0, how is that unwanted?
> 
> It's an unwanted problem with Pd's argument passing.

And there are two ways out: One is IEMlib's [dollarg], the other would
be to introduce a special symbol for 0, like "ZERO" and use something
like:

[select 0]
         |
         [select ZERO]
         | 
         [0( 

Of course then you cannot have $1 = ZERO (the symbol) anymore.

Ciao
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