[PD] Best practice for abstractions with many parameters

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:

> I'm wondering what experienced PD architects consider the best practice 
> here; if the second approach is better, I begin to question the 
> advisability of wired inlets for more than two or three arguments.  The 
> left-to-right ordering of them, along with the rats-nest wiring caused 
> by high numbers of inputs, seem to argue against them.  The only 
> downside I can see to the second method is that if it's not done neatly, 
> i.e., the senders are placed indiscriminately and not necessarily near 
> the abstraction they're sending to -- it could become very hard to 
> understand/maintain the patch.

A neat trick is to use one (!) send/receive pair for all (!) your
abstractions, but "tagging" your abstractions with an argument, that
you pass to a [route $1] inside. 

An even neater trick is to use [sssad] to handle all this routing.

I'm working on a saving-tutorial which covers this in more detail.
It's almost done, attached is the preview edition.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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